Word: droving
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...Glimcher drove up the astronomical sum on scruples alone––he could not bear to see what he saw as an archetypally American painting go to Germany, as it would have, had not he rallied four patrons to contribute a quarter each of the price to keep it in the States...
...just got tired of being in bands that weren't dedicated," he says of the apathetic Phoenix metal scene. He had taken a job transferring property maps into computer files when a mutual friend told him Linkin Park was looking for a singer. With his wife's encouragement, Bennington drove to L.A., auditioned and never left. "Another guy was trying out the same day," says Shinoda, "and he just took off when he heard Chester try out. He was, like, 'Hey, I'm not gonna try to compete with that...
...makeover and growth of the now defunct Braniff International Airways; in Mustique, West Indies. He perked up the airline with brightly colored planes and Pucci-designed flight-attendant uniforms (with help from Mary Wells, an ad executive who later became his wife), before a recession and high fuel prices drove the airline out of business...
...breed entirely. Rolled out to great acclaim at the Detroit Auto Show last week, this luxury sportmobile may not exactly be elegant. But not since I drove the limited production BMW Z8 roadster last summer have I been behind the wheel of a car that prompted so many oohs and ahs, and not a few Wows - including one from yours truly when I punched it on the FDR drive just minutes later...
...Baghran is along a dry riverbed; with vehicles negotiating fields of rough river stones, inconvenient boulders, dusty sand banks and pools of cold water. It's slow, slow going. On either side sheer mountains glare down like surly sentinels. Villages are few. At times we drove up from the river and across low folds of hills where endless gullies and draws make for good ambush. No wonder the Russians could never capture Baghran. A Soviet tank, ruptured by rockets, rusts at one turn; a scant reminder of a failed campaign...