Word: clashingly
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...Clash steered clear of the Festival, unlike the Who, whose appearance the year before sold out a Roman coliseum. Perhaps the philosophy embedded in Rude Boy kept the Clash at an ideological distance from Cannes' party-hopping...
Rude Boy, filmed in 1978 at the peak of punk, uses an extreme of European minimalist filmmaking technique, allowing little storytelling. The film offers, also, the most accomplished interaction between documentary footage and staged events since Medium Cool, although Clash fans aren't likely to care much. The band members fought distribution for a while, sensing that they might be revealed in an awkward stage of their career...
While that hardbought insight illuminates the current production at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, the clash of wills between King Pentheus of Thebes and the god Dionysus is somewhat muffled, despite Michael Cacoyannis' incisive direction and his crisply idiomatic translation. John Noah Hertzler's Pentheus is less a king than a kinglet, a petty tyro tyrant, and Christopher Rich's Dionysus is no god but a godlet, a prancing posturer devoid of awe, might and mystery...
...some families, no house is big enough for two generations when parents' values clash head-on with those the child has developed out on his own. Says a Long Island, N.Y., mother who refuses rent from her daughter, a 24-year-old sales representative: "I am determined that things in this house should be the way my husband and I want them. At times we feel that Kate uses the house as a hotel...
Various citizen organizations contend that the new lights would clash with the architecture along Mem Drive and would disrupt normal neighborhood life. Randall said, however, that some citizens support the proposal, saying updating the lights is long overdue...