Word: clashingly
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...styles that the nation's sports fans have been anticipating all season, the collision of immovable force and irresistible object will be more reverberant than ever before. For despite the presence of two dozen redwoods in uniforms, the cameras, our eyes and endorsement makers will be focused on a clash of shaven- headed close friends: Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan. On paper, the league's Most Valuable Player this season vs. the greatest player in the sport. In practice, a bowling ball of a man who hurtles downcourt at top speed, knocking down everything in his path, against the coolest...
...than 8,000 college students travelled to Grant Park and Michigan Avenue in Chicago to protest at the Democratic National Convention. As Eugene McCarthy and his supporters clamored for an open convention, Mayor Richard Daley called in troops from the National Guard for what was to be a violent clash...
...someone else's. Her struggle to retain her faith in a dark world that threatens to overwhelm her is a call for all of them to speak out and reach out to each other. Elsa and Helen's friendship is often trying, as not only personalities but world perspectives clash. But the grace and trust that they inspire in each other and us make just this one evening they have with each other and then audience a memorable...
...would be altogether too easy to dismiss this assertion as the perfunctory but necessary posturing of a candidate who promised instant dynamism, but produced nothing more than paralysis. But the clash between Clinton's belief that he's a proven man of action and the apparent reality of his stagnant administration is not just a matter of politics; it is a true dissonance of perception. Clinton is the first president of a generation which values deliberation as much as, and perhaps more than, substantive action...
Baitz's awareness of the clash between cash and conscience is hardly novel; ! and his main target, infant formula, has been pilloried for more than a decade. What makes Three Hotels so memorable, in an impeccable production, is Baitz's ability to render people specific and real. He savors the businessman's skill at infighting and pride in the art of firing failed subordinates even as the character edges toward a moral quandary. He evokes the wife's protectiveness and pragmatic respect toward her husband's labor even as she lashes out to end it. The play implies in each...