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...primary experience for viewers of this interminable, plot-free bore. Damon and Casey Affleck star as friends, both nicknamed Gerry, lost and wandering somewhere in Death Valley. The film is slow-witted where it should be thoughtful, pretentious when it should be sincere. As the two title characters drift aimlessly under the merciless desert sun, it’s hard not to look forward to the bitter end. Gerry screens...
Bowing to political pressure, a city commander prepares to downsize his troops and head back into the frontlines. Elsewhere, peacekeepers on an exploration mission drift serenely moments before discovering a secret that sends them screaming into oblivion. And with that, British author James Roberts kick-starts _Eugenesis_, a science-fiction adventure that roars from start to finish with considerable verve. At first glance, there is nothing at all unusual about this novel. The old standards are there: the embattled heroes, shifting alliances, explosive secrets, and a mysterious and nigh-invincible enemy. The book design cleverly apes the Penguin Classics standard...
...story of volume two: "Within a Budding Grove." Set at a French seaside resort at the turn of century, the narrator is a young man of delicate temperament. Vacationing among the idle rich, our hero spies a group of young women around the resort and has his fancy drift from one to the other. Who will the young man choose and will she reciprocate? This, the strongest "plot" of the series so far, provides the narrative thread that Proust then strings his poetic pearls along. In a medium where plot traditionally comes first, it's hard to believe that...
...Middle East pushed mortgage rates lower," said Frank Nothaft, chief economist at mortgage-finance company Freddie Mac (which, unsurprisingly, posted a 25 percent increase in net income in Q4). "That and falling stock prices raised investor appeal for U.S. Treasury Bonds, which in turn, allowed most interest rates to drift even lower...
...GEORGE H.W. BUSH Does this sound familiar? A President named Bush who scored high in foreign policy by confronting Saddam Hussein and mobilizing an international alliance but who seemed to pursue "deliberate drift" on the economy and other domestic issues. TIME chose Bush senior because he was the person who had the greatest impact on events both "for better and for worse...