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...sport, fencing suffers from a general lack of respect. To the average student, it seems slightly antiquated, strange and more than a little bit crazy--who would spend free time getting poked with along, pointy weapon...
Eddie Murphy needs to shoot off his mouth. It's his best weapon, and the one that's unique to his arsenal. When a movie mostly requires him to shoot off a gun he becomes just another action star, and another talent wasted in lazily miscalculated material...
...Osby was threatened by young black men who fit the profile of the most dangerous men in America," says Jared Taylor, author of Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America and an expert witness for the defense. "His decision to use his weapon when attacked is more understandable, since his assailants fit this profile." Urban survival, said Lane, "is an extension of the law of self-defense to try to make the jury understand the point of view of our client...
...story is nothing much: Maverick trying to round up the money to enter a high-stakes poker game before it starts. Writer William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Richard Donner (the Lethal Weapon series) both seem to understand that the TV Maverick offered tinkly satirical relief from the other Western programs of the day, which took themselves so seriously. If the filmmakers lose the show's sharpness by converting it to the large screen with broad gestures, they can live with it. Doubtless all the rest...
...response, both houses of Congress have passed gigantic crime packages made up of dozens of measures in an attempt to stem the nation's unenviable reputation as a world leader in urban violence. Legislators' passions for the bill helped sweep in the ban on assault rifles as one more weapon in the "war on crime...