Word: daredevil
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...deep-sea free divers, as being like Ocean's Eleven. He's kidding. Sort of. The goal is a lot worthier than emptying the vault at a Las Vegas casino, but in terms of style, that's what The Cove is emulating. Characters are introduced with a flourish--the daredevil, the soulful surfer, the bumbling cops--and Psihoyos takes the George Clooney role. (He's got the tan and the big white teeth.) There's time-lapse photography, footage shot on infrared film and some nail-biting moments that are milked for melodrama. The Cove is slick and smart...
...Economists of all political stripes agree that the recession grew largely from certain issues: An unsustainable boom in home prices—propped up in part by daredevil lending—led to a rapid depreciation in home values. When transmitted through securitization, this loss of wealth resulted in a crisis of confidence in credit markets and a downturn in economic activity...
...superheroes in underwear. Now comics have become more respectable and a more serious medium.” This evolution has led to a subversion of the traditional boundary between comics and literature.“You could be reading ‘Batman’ and ‘Daredevil,’ and it feels that you’re in a Dashiell Hammett novel,” Davis says. “In general the best comics nowadays are much better written than the comics written 20 or 30 years ago. The boundaries have changed...
After serving as a daredevil World War II pilot in the Royal Air Force, Terry Spencer, 90, shot photographs for LIFE for 20 years. He charted the Beatles' rise to stardom and covered wars in Africa, Asia and the Middle East...
...from Finding Neverland to The Kite Runner--does much better when he has no moral in tow; he can concentrate on shepherding the second-unit stunt work and setting a tempo of nearly nonstop suspense. What's lost in reverberations from the series' blithe old movies is gained in daredevil vigor...