Word: antagonistical
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...journalists get to make the history they write about. When Nelson Mandela was rehearsing for his only debate with President F.W. de Klerk before South Africa's elections last year, he called on Allister Sparks to pose as his Afrikaner antagonist. That selection may seem curious, but South Africa has long been a place where liberal English-speaking journalists like Sparks believed their job was not simply to record the struggle against apartheid but participate in it as well...
TIME's Carney, who attended, says Clinton's "rousing speech" galvanized an otherwise soporific DLC parlay and persuaded many moderate Democrats that the president would reposition himself to their liking. (Clinton antagonist McCurdy, Carney reports, was so enthusiastic that he said blurted out, "That's the Bill Clinton we've been waiting for" -- a remark that drew a momentary frown from the president, who had avoided directly criticizing McCurdy.) "Are they going to play it safe, or be bold in taking on the Republicans?" Carney asks. "The signal Clinton issued was that they're going to be bold and challenge...
When Al Gore '69 and Ross Perot debated the North American Free Trade Agreement last fall for a national viewing audience, the personal tensions between the vice-president and his antagonist were evident but subtle...
When BOBBY RAY INMAN withdrew himself from consideration for Secretary of Defense, he cited columnist William Safire and Senator Bob Dole, among others, as the causes of his vexation. But there was one antagonist he didn't mention: Senator TRENT LOTT. A source familiar with Inman's thinking says Lott was one of the chief reasons why Inman pulled out; he believed the Mississippi Republican was marshaling forces on the Senate Armed Services Committee against him. Lott, however, says he was for Inman all along...
...function is also to set the stage for the savagery of Schindler's dark double and most dangerous antagonist, Amon Goeth, commandant of the nearby labor camp, played by Ralph Fiennes in the film's most compelling performance. A man of Schindler's own age and background, he likes to sit on the balcony of his house idly shooting prisoners who happen to wander into his gunsight. He keeps as a servant a Jewish woman named Helen Hirsch (Embeth Davidtz), whom he constantly beats and humiliates precisely because against all dictates of ideology, he loves her. The point about this...