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Seriously, I think the dirty secret that helps explain the upsurge in adventure travel and other forms of risk-taking is that Americans are bored with prosperity.
And that's an adventure that mankind could actually use.
To blame the Marshall Plan for the transmission of mindless high-tech adventure films into every city of Europe is akin to blaming Thomas Jefferson's belief in free speech for Hustler magazine and porn shops in every city in America.
Besides beaches, the Algarve’s major attractions are towns that lived through centuries of adventure, triumph, and disaster.
Excellent coverage all around for this offbeat Gulf War adventure-drama directed by David O. Russell ( Flirting With Disaster ). The "blisteringly funny" story of a group of soldiers who plot to steal hidden Iraqi bullion "works both as a rousing action adventure movie and as a subversion of the genre" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The stars, George Clooney, Ice Cube, Mark Wahlberg, and Spike Jonze, all give excellent turns, but the director is universally singled out: He has created "some kind of weird masterpiece" that "sings with the exhilaration of pure filmmaking" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Strangely enough, the one negative review comes from the New York Times ' usually chipper Janet Maslin, who complains that the wacky camera style and tricks with film stock are "inadvertently distracting" and that the film doesn't pick up speed until the second half, when it's "too little, too late."