Word: slambang
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...their willingness to die for the state. In short, we're looking at a happily fascist world. Maybe that's the movie's final, deadpan joke. Maybe it's saying that war inevitably makes fascists of us all. Or--best guess--maybe the filmmakers are so lost in their slambang visual effects that they don't give a hoot about the movie's scariest implications...
...notion that a film's look and tone can be its subject is, well, foreign to Hollywood directors, for whom the basic elements are a propulsive story and some slambang special effects. But as Chen Kaige shows in the humid, tumid Temptress Moon, image is all. Reuniting the stars (Hong Kong's Leslie Cheung and the mainland's Gong Li) of his 1993 Farewell My Concubine, Chen paints a glamorous portrait of drugs and decadence in 1920s China. The leaders of today's China, addicted to the old narcotic of Maoism, may have seen the film as an unflattering mirror...
...slambang political fight, complete with barrages of print and TV ads, one crafted by George Bush's campaign guru Roger Ailes. Colorado Governor Roy Romer and Denver Mayor Federico Pena politicked incessantly around town. When the vote came in, several hundred giddy campaign workers shouted themselves hoarse in a jammed downtown hotel ballroom. The turnout, 41% of registered voters, would have been respectable for a congressional or gubernatorial election. In fact, the balloting was a special election in which Denver residents last Tuesday voted 63% to 37% to build a $2.3 billion new airport -- the first to be constructed...
...fact is that virtually every genuine constitutional question has unique complexities that do not lend themselves to the slambang simplicity espoused by Reagan and Meese. For as Jefferson noted two centuries ago, the founders "laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves." And as Tribe's latest book, God Save This Honorable Court, clearly shows, the very breadth of the Constitution makes it an imperfect guide in specific matters. Such vague phrases as "unreasonable search," "equal protection of the laws," or "due process," writes Tribe, "not only invite but compel the Supreme...
...voice is an explosion in a gravel pit, and he moves across the stage like a bulldozer in a china shop. Knowing that it would be folly to imitate Coward's brittle delivery and soigné manner, Scott has turned an airily sophisticated comedy into a rollicking, slambang farce...