Word: breakthroughs
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...required a lot of care and feeding. Her first, Zack McCoy, is plainly modeled on Jackson Pollock. The wounded god of Abstract Expressionism, he moves from early struggles in New York City to vexed triumphs on the sunlit east end of Long Island. There McCoy/Pollock has his breakthrough to the drip paintings that bring him fame, which arrives at his door with its jaws open...
...while the alleged bombmaker's arrest was a huge breakthrough in the Bali case, investigators say he was probably a fairly small cog in a much larger machine. "If it was only Amrozi, that would be great," says Brigadier General Edward Aritonang, national police spokesman for the investigation team. "If we don't get the masterminds behind him, more bombs will...
...America's turn to steal scenarios, stars and directors, too. Jackie Chan has made four Hollywood films since his breakthrough in Rush Hour. His latest, The Tuxedo, is a wan spy caper with digital tricks that undermine Chan's amazing physical grace. Shu Qi, the Taiwan-born beguiler, has better luck with her English-language debut, The Transporter, a furious demolition derby produced by Besson and directed by Hong Kong action auteur Corey Yuen (Fong...
Josh Stephenson, a writer for the Princeton Alumni Weekly, wrote last fall that, “Harvard freshmen Kaego Ogbechie and Pernilla Schweitzer may represent a breakthrough for the league...
...suckers. Having confessed, the North Koreans are now subject to diplomatic pressure. "This is an Administration that was determined not to get into a dialogue with them," says Joseph Cirincione of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "and the first time they do, they make a major breakthrough." For the hawks, the real lesson from North Korea is that treaties, communiques and compromises don't work when you are dealing with someone who will lie right through the signing ceremony--unless you have a gun in your hand. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington