Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wang saves the movie from becoming a typical clash-of-cultures, mix-of-cultures, everyone-learn-something picture. As Fang, Wang could be playing himself. He seems so natural, that sometimes the movie seems like an documentary. And Wang's cinematographical direction is simply beautiful...
Even more troubling to Western analysts has been the clash with New Zealand that began in 1984 over the U.S.'s right to dock nuclear-powered or -armed ships there. Last week the dispute led the two nations to move toward formally ending their mutual-defense treaty under the ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, U.S.) alliance. While the U.S. and New Zealand will maintain their military agreements with Australia, they will no longer defend each other. After meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange in Manila, Shultz declared, "We part company as friends, but we do part company...
...clash was the latest round in Argentina's improbable squid war, in which the Buenos Aires government, claiming control over its coastal waters to a distance of 200 miles, has been trying to clear the region of as many as 300 foreign trawlers. Over the past month, the Argentines have chased or captured fishing boats from Spain, Japan, Poland and Taiwan. The Taiwanese vessel may have been trying to escape the warship by heading toward the 150-mile-deep British exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands. Taiwan was furious. Britain, which fought Argentina to retain the Falklands in 1982, denounced...
Despite the construction of several non-gothic structures outside his window, many of which clash with the Yard's normal appearance, Jewett has managed to keep a rapport with the protesters. Throughout the spring's long protest season, there were no serious confrontations, at least none worth trying to discipline anybody...
...sword fight is a model of slapstick ineptitude. A Minister of State (Petherbridge) comes out, stares at the audience long and balefully, and departs; he is, Mr. Puff explains, contemplating politics but discreetly not discussing it. When at last the battle with the armada unfolds, it is a clash between two tiny, hand-manipulated boats, reminiscent of a puppet show. At this point the scenery begins to collapse around the cast until the stage is a shambles. McKellen, still capering, still jigging, still shaking his frizzy ginger hair, surveys this chaos, cheerily chirps, "Ah, yes, very well, but not perfect...