Blue Thunder: SE

1983 was quite a year in many ways, aside from the
release of the then-final volume in the Star Wars trilogy, Ronald Regan's
Presidency was well underway, all but eliminating the previously stifling double
digit inflation that nearly collapsed the economy, and terrorist in the Middle
East had killed hundreds of US servicemen in a bombing attack.
Rock & Rule played for a short
time before disappearing into the annals of cult classics and liberal whining
about Big Brother (a reference to George Orwell's novel, 1984) was all
over the place. The end of the Vietnam War and Watergate were still firmly in
the minds of a distrusting public that had once largely supported the various
institutions of government and big business. The Cold War had heated up and the
US military had pushed a huge expansion that led, ultimatel...
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