Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will all this go at Givenchy? There will be some sort of culture clash but, McQueen promises, "no bumsters." He believes the refinement of his tailoring makes him a worthy heir to Hubert de Givenchy: "The line of the body and the tailoring make it closer to what he was about, with his training with Balenciaga." As for the cost of couture, McQueen calls it just a fact of life. "If it requires 83 hours for a person to sit there beading a dress," he says, "that's it. Take it or leave...
Dartmouth, the only undefeated team in the Ivies, is in the driver's seat, but Brown and Columbia are only one game behind. The three contenders will clash in the final three weeks of the season with a league title and Division I-AA playoff berth on the line...
Tabloid-TV anchors announce a bloody feud between two of Verona Beach's most notorious clans--thug royalty, whose young princes have the family name tattooed on their skulls. The streets of this resort town sizzle with ethnic enmity, with nose thumbing on a nuclear scale, with the attitude clash of drag queens and skinheads. When the hormonal humidity is this high, only fools fall in love. So the daughter of one clan has eyes only for the son of her dad's hated rival. She searches for him in her dreams, by her swimming pool, beneath her balcony. "Wherefore...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "When...principles clash, we clash. But it should always be in the spirit of political warfare and not personal enmity...
When those of differing opinions clash in a deliberative democracy, society may need to restrict certain actions to preserve order and protect citizens. Nobody has a "right" to practice sodomy any more than one has a "right" to play checkers. Both actions can be discouraged or curtailed if necessary...