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Fans of tight bellbottoms and stilted acting: H.B. Halicki’s original “Gone in 60 Seconds” is the Holy Grail. Halicki’s fast-and-furious 1974 thriller is chock full of women with skyscraping AquaNet-infused hair and, of course, plenty of cops-and-robbers car-chase sequences. Unfortunately, despite multitudes of overly-tan men with enormous sideburns, the original “Gone in 60 Seconds” can’t hold a candle to director Dominic Sena’s 2000 remake—skipping...
...don’t quite remember when I first heard about downloading music. It was somewhere in my early high school years that a friend first showed me his vast catalogue of illegally procured tunes. This was indeed the Holy Grail: a never-ending supply of music was just waiting to be pulled from an immense, digital horn-of-plenty, and my iMac was my very own, blueberry-flavored ticket to sonic heaven...
...Facts: From a pool of 1,000 highly competitive applicants, up to 32 of the best are selected for this, the Holy Grail of academic scholarships, funding one to three years of study at Oxford University...
...brought on chest pains - even taking a shower left him exhausted. After his doctors told him there was nothing more they could do, Grinstead turned to the Internet for ideas. Countless searches and phone calls later, he was on a plane to Thailand in a quest for the Holy Grail of 21st century medicine: stem-cell therapy. Today, eight months after having stem cells injected into one of his coronary arteries, Grinstead's heart is operating more efficiently and he's leading a life his U.S. doctors thought impossible. "I can go for a 30-minute walk," he says...
...brought on chest pains?even taking a shower left him exhausted. After his doctors told him there was nothing more they could do, Grinstead turned to the Internet for ideas. Countless searches and phone calls later, he was on a plane to Thailand in a quest for the Holy Grail of 21st century medicine: stem-cell therapy. Today, eight months after having stem cells injected into one of his coronary arteries, Grinstead's heart is operating more efficiently and he's leading a life his U.S. doctors thought impossible. "I can go for a 30-minute walk," he says...