Word: chafing
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...gamble that deserves a solid payoff. As Demme says, "She is, indeed, the mother of the movie." The film has many gifted midwives. But it was Winfrey who gave birth to a strong, stately film; to the chance for a renewed awareness of how slavery's shackles still chafe. She has also given birth to herself--as a force in a Hollywood that needs a more mature future, and in an America that needs to remember its past...
...environmentalist struggling to get out? Pierre Salinger thinks so. J.F.K.'s former press secretary has written the introduction to Gaddafi's first published work of fiction, just arrived in translation in the U.S. Cheerily titled Escape to Hell and Other Stories, Gaddafi's book mostly covers things that chafe him, including football, rock music and especially cities: "Flee from the lethargy and waste, the poison and boredom and yawning. Flee from the nightmare city," he writes. People, also, are a problem: "Your breath chases me like a rabid dog, its saliva dripping in the street of your modern city...
...writer who, far from existing for only a single moment of historical controversy, lived richly and fully--and in very interesting times. We whirl with the young Hall through the wild nightlife of Jazz Age London, watch her early involvement with the women's suffrage movement, and chafe with her when, at the outbreak of the First World War, she is prevented by her sex from being able to fight at the front...
Sounds awfully like 1992 all over again. But with support for a military strike almost undetectable either at home or abroad, those U.N. handcuffs shouldn't chafe President Clinton overmuch. And when those U.S. warships in the Gulf recede and Saddam gets up to his old tricks, the council may wish it had left Clinton something to bluff with...
...show. Also, as long as they have Dave Bossie in there coordinating things for the panel, there is going to be a lot of resistance from people who would probably be very good lawyers or very good investigators from joining the committee. There are committee staff who chafe under his directions, and because of this, it will be very hard for them to hire new people because they'll know what they're getting into...