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Described by an aide as "a tornado in a wheat field," Bennett as drug czar would have to be a deft persuader and work with dozens of agencies like the CIA and the Pentagon as well as foreign governments like Bolivia and Colombia. That may not come easy for his heretical nature...
From the opening credits (a police car's siren light cruises down a street, onto the sidewalk, into a house, through a girls' shower room) to the closing crawl (which confides, "In case of tornado, southwest corner of basement"), The Naked Gun is a picture in thrall to its own silliness. Three of the film's perpetrators, the ZAZ team, spoofed '70s disaster epics in Airplane! and spy movies in Top Secret! Now they have stolen from themselves, extending their 1982 TV series Police Squad! to feature length. The stretch marks show, in a plethora of chase scenes and bathroom...
...connections of land to culture and psychology are heavily illustrated with dramatic events and strong imagery. To leave no doubt that Fleur is an avenging witch, Erdrich poses her in front of a boiling vat of animal skulls. A tornado lifts a herd of cattle into the air, where they resemble giant birds, "dropping dung, their mouths opened in stunned bellows." A moose is tracked, killed and butchered in a snowy wood. The warm meat is then molded to the hunter's body, where it freezes to resemble marbled blue armor...
Under the British-Saudi agreement, Riyadh will obtain 48 Tornado fighter- bombers to add to the 72 it has already contracted for, as well as up to 60 Hawk jet trainers, 80 helicopters and six minesweepers. Britain will also build two military airfields and provide training for Saudi Arabia's army and air force...
Israeli officials accused the British of undermining the Jewish state's security. Yossi Ben-Aharon, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's director general, said the Tornado fighters would allow Saudi Arabia to "hit us in the soft underbelly from the south." But Israeli objections were dismissed by British officials. The Israelis "know full well," said a Cabinet minister, that the weapons will be deployed only as a defense against Iran...