Also, there are still a ton of characters in this movie, and it looks like we'll get some backstory on how Gamora came to be in the dark god's service, plus some power showdowns between Cap, Thor and James Brolin's terrifying bad guy.
But if this move isn't meant to set up one kind of executive-power showdown or another, and if it instead signals the beginning of a post-political Obama, then that is good news indeed.
Rather, he's interested in conflict, in daring, in risk, in the high-stakes, power-driven showdowns that, for all the careful preparation and research underlying them, are essentially stages of performance, of acting for one's life — an existential self-realization in the mortal pressure of the moment and the camera's relentless eye.
P14 Comment: Media power struggle set for showdown over who is calling the shots.
The Bush Administration is struggling to regain the trust of the American public and to avoid a constitutional showdown over executive power — something it never, ever expected.
Bush -- No Gore -- No TWO ASSESSMENTS "The United States is the only power that can handle a showdown in the gulf, mount the kind of force that is needed to protect Saudi Arabia and deter a crisis in the Taiwan Straits.
This is power politics, Madagascar-style, a showdown between President Marc Ravalomanana and Mayor Andry Rajoelina, who in recent weeks has denounced the president as a dictator, a scoundrel and a thief.
That showdown tests the power of the state's highest-profile politician -- a man who almost always can command public attention -- against the influence of the state's most prominent political financier.
The large-scale judicial showdown between corporate power and public interest that began with the Rehnquist Court has accelerated and intensified under the current Roberts Court to the point where the Supreme Court has degenerated into the "most dangerous" branch of government, asserts PFAW.
Six House members -- three Republicans and three Democrats -- have joined together to introduce legislation strengthening the 1973 War Powers Act which (if successful) could mean a showdown on the separation of powers before the Supreme Court.
