Word: chafing
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Palestinians chafe under Israeli rule on the West Bank...
...Palestinians, the economic inequities might chafe less if the Israeli military occupation were not so humiliating. The Palestinians, in fact, have few civil rights under the Israelis. Although there have been terrorist attacks launched from the West Bank, they usually have come from Jordan or Lebanon. Still, any Palestinian may be detained, imprisoned or deported at any time without charge. Their homes and land may be confiscated, their crops burned. A West Banker suspected of engaging in resistance activities, even throwing a stone at an Israeli vehicle, is liable to have his home destroyed; some 1,500 houses have been...
...parable about mankind. Chulkaturin, reading from his diary, tells the tale of the titular fifth horse, harnessed for some mysterious reason to a coach which already boasts a full complement of four horses. The coachman, who has shackled the fifth horse so clumsily as to make it chafe and bleed, explains that the animal has no purpose in life but to run, senselessly and painfully. Chulkaturin thinks of himself in terms of this story, for he and the fifth horse are both defined by an utterly characterless superfluity...
...allegedly killed an estimated 200 inhabitants and resettled 8,500 to 10,000 more at internment camps in the Nicaraguan interior near Rosita and Siuna. Reason for the Sandinista campaign: the Miskitos, some of whom fought alongside the Sandinistas to overthrow Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, had begun to chafe under Sandinista rule. Some were even known to have joined forces with anti-Sandinista exiles across the Honduran border...
...boards, video-taped rehearsals and pre-editing on video rather than film. But the concept of actors and artisans under contract recalls the studio system that flourished for 40 years and died out in the '60s. Can Zoetrope work? Can it be profitable? Will a dozen cantankerous directors chafe under the effusive rein of an auteur-mogul? Many people in the New Hollywood, including some of Coppola's competitors, hope he makes it. Others are more skeptical. Says Ned Tanen: "Francis has all the answers. Too bad someone doesn't give him the questions...