An action-adventure yarn set in contemporary Johannesburg, the movie is continually stopping in its tracks to deliver simplistic, preachy political broadsides.

Just as many Japanese have gotten used to announcements for their own good, they have generally resigned themselves to thundering political broadsides as an expression of free speech.

Much of it, he says, is domestic politics, aimed at President Bush, whose recent electoral victories have made him impervious to other political broadsides.

While extraordinarily capable of tracking military movements, satellites cannot conduct conversations in bazaars, like a spy, or translate political broadsides or interpret economic data, like an intelligence analyst.

But Bloomberg administration officials described the report as a naïve political broadside meant to scare the public.

Some are fashion statements, others political broadsides.

Mr. Parker's songs are political broadsides and self-help messages directed at inner city youth.

On the other side, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. leveled its political broadside at the Republicans.

Interwoven with the political broadsides are amusing tales of the frustrations of everyday life.

And then he came across an anonymous political broadside, written years later, just after Saladin Two.