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Beautifully acted, beautifully scored, and most beautifully shot, it gives a self-conscious nod to mob-movie romanticism without gutting the myth a la Scorsese's 1990 gangster hit, Goodfellas . (It also provides the best role Gabriel Byrne is ever likely to get: half Richard Burton, half Al Pacino)
At what appears to be a Chamber of Commerce lunch, he chats with a woman while his voice-over offers the assurance that he's for a balanced budget--a Thurmond priority--"without gutting Medicare and student loans."
) Time also runs a disturbing report from Baghdad, where Iraqi commando units proved their battle-readiness by gutting a live dog on television while chanting, "Our God, our nation, our leader!"
An article contends that China's behavior toward Hong Kong proves the failure of Clinton's "constructive engagement" policy, which holds that China will become more democratic as it becomes more capitalistic: By gutting the Joint Declaration, China proves that it will never allow democracy to flourish, even if it lets capitalism flourish.