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There is "too much flexing of stylistic muscle," says the New Republic 's Robert Alter.
Rather, it is that without even the pretence of civilian control over its nuclear arsenal, Pakistan's armed forces may feel more confident about flexing their conventional military muscles in pursuit of their own objectives.
What has inspired Saddam's most recent flexing?
Terence Blanchard's music strikes the same note of mournful counterpoint again and again, and the picture teems with conscious and unconscious echoes of Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976); it could have been called Summer of Scorsese . A sequence of punk thrashing and shooting-up set to The Who's "Baba O'Riley" brings the narrative to an embarrassing halt: It's just Spike flexing his cinematic muscles, showing how much montage he can bench press.
Republic regained control of the lucrative property in 1993 by flexing a new Supreme Court ruling that determined that the holder of a copyright to a story from which a movie was made had certain property rights over the movie itself.