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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.
President Reagan ordered air strikes against Libya.
"French handyman" strikes my American ears as oxymoronically as "American intellectual" probably strikes French ones.
Corrupt party financing "strikes at the heart of democracy."
The newspaper said Beijing has not done enough research on long-distance precision missile strikes.