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Stallone is back, after a three year absence and the box office failure of his millennial foray, Get Carter. But while Driven may not be the comeback vehicle that will thrust him into the spotlight once again, it’s still one high-performance beauty that roars from start to finish with the throttle wide open. Solid acting turns and some breathtakingly edge-of-your-seat car races make getting there just as much fun as crossing the finish line...
...country's first foray was in the Middle East and the Gulf region. So the Secretary of State went, working to build relations - for a couple of reasons. One is for energy security; two is to provide a platform for peace if we can ever get the parties back to the table, which starts with making sure we break the cycle of violence that seems to be spinning in the Middle East right...
PSLM’s occupation of Mass. Hall is the organization’s first foray into a new breed of radical activism—a newer, sleeker, more media-savvy form of protest first seen in Seattle and Washington...
...Denham and Driscoll are modeled on Cooper and Schoedsack, who as a documentary filmmakers would go anywhere for a picture. They scored big with "Grass" in 1925, its setting the wind-swept plains of Persia. They followed-up with the Siamese jungle picture "Chang" in 1927, their first foray into spectacle: a climactic (and staged) elephant charge decimates a native village. The more sensational scenes in the picture were projected in "Magnascope", a process which enlarged the size of the image to Imax proportions. (Cooper and Schoedsack went out the way they came in: their last picture together...
What are memoirs, really, but an invitation to rubberneck at the multicar pileups in someone else's life? Rebecca Walker's foray into the genre, Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (Riverhead Books; 320 pages; $23.95), is plenty gapeworthy. Her book teems with childhood wreckage: premature sex, reckless drug experimentation, the end of her parents' interracial marriage, and her own consistently tenuous relationships born of desperation. Interwoven are heartrending but barbed recollections of absent, distracted parents--a self-absorbed mother, writer Alice Walker, who hires someone to take her daughter clothes shopping because she is "too busy...