Word: escapees
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Renaldo Duval was luckier -- at least in the beginning. Financing his escape by selling a small house and a plot of land on the edge of the village, he established for himself a nest egg of 3,000 Haitian gourdes (about $100). Sent back in March, he bought a place...
This is not to say the movie is without its faults. Mitch's reason for his devotion to his work is never fully backed up. Although he's supposed to be desperate to escape a poor background, it doesn't quite ring true. A shot of his mother in a...
Well, it worked, this story of a cute blond boy (Macaulay Culkin, the onscreen key to Home Alone's popularity), abandoned by his parents, who triumphantly foils a housebreaking criminal and wins the love of the crusty codger who lives next door. (It worked so well that Hughes Xeroxed the...
Escape, for grownup moviegoers of a certain age, was when the archetypal cinema couple was Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, making silent-movie love more eloquent than poetry, or Tracy and Hepburn, turning sass into starlight. But that was long ago, when Hollywood was in its swoonily romantic adolescence. Now...
A conglomerate as large as the Pentagon could hardly escape the restructuring that has been the watchword of corporate America for a decade. The end of the cold war has reduced the uniformed services from 2.1 million members in the mid-1980s to 1.7 million, heading down to 1.4 million...