Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equally of hip characters onstage and of the dead roommate's unseen blue-collar family. Then the show metamorphoses into a scary collision between those two cultures. Finally it becomes a romance between the elegant choreographer and the dead man's explosive, disturbing older brother -- a sexually charged clash of classes reminiscent of It Happened One Night or, in its brutality and danger, of the misfit infatuation in Requiem for a Heavyweight. The final scene is a rapprochement so tentative that it is played entirely in the dark: these reluctant lovers are unable even to look at each other...
...Minutewomen (14-1) lived up to their name--storming the Harvard penalty area with shots that could have rung round the world. UMass fired its way past the Crimson (6-3-1 overall, 1-0-2 Ivy League) in a fast-paced, physical clash between the top two teams in the Eastern Region...
...aimed their weapons at each other and pulled the triggers. Iranian speedboats, which fired first, missed an unarmed U.S. Army observation helicopter. Two U.S. gunship choppers reacted with lethal swiftness, sinking one of the attacking boats and setting two others ablaze. A fourth escaped. Although hardly a major military clash, the fiery exchange on a moonlit night in the gulf last week ratchetted the hostilities yet another notch toward a real but undeclared state of limited...
...losing on three of his most important remaining goals: securing his social agenda by shifting the Supreme Court to the right, saving the contras and preventing a tax increase or cuts in defense spending. The White House stands to gain only one advantage from the continuation of the Bork clash: after a bloody battle, critics may be less willing to fight the President's next nominee...
NATION: Gulf tensions rise as the U. S. and Iran clash again in a shootout...