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(This crisis is not, of course, limited to television: Those of us in the print and e-media are thrashing through the same news vacuum.)
I mean, it's another sign of the fact that his campaign is thrashing about a bit."
I called on a neighbor whose dog was poisoned along with ours, and he said that if he found the perpetrator, he would give him the thrashing of his life.
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.
After giving the little miscreant a sound thrashing, the governor and his wife will throw Raymond out of the house and disinherit him, or, if you choose to believe the pronouncement of parents befuddled by grief: "We will offer Raymond our unconditional and abiding love, support and guidance."