Word: coexistences
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...crackle of gunfire and mortars has long been a normal sound of life in war-scarred Lebanon, where rival Palestinians, Muslim leftists and Christian Phalangists warily coexist under the watchful eyes of 30,000 Syrian peacekeeping troops. Last week the tenuous three-year-old truce in Lebanon was once again broken by sporadic fighting after Syria announced that it would soon reduce its policeman's role in Beirut. At the same time, the Damascus government said that it would move some of its Beirut-based forces into the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon to buttress Syria...
...most curious mix of the real and the absurd, the naturalistic and the impressionistic is a French film based on the diary of a coupe who attempted to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat. The story of their failure both to make the journey or to happily coexist is haunting and moving, replete with terrifying violence and strange sexual fantasies, ending finally with their rediscovered love...
Such scenes in Tehran are vivid reminders that two worlds coexist uneasily in Iran today. The first, the political world of the revolution, is currently focused on the U.S. embassy, where the crowds-smaller than they were a few weeks ago-still gather to shout anti-American slogans and epithets of Islamic fervor, especially when cameramen are on hand. This world also includes the universities and technical schools, the late-night meetings of the supreme Revolutionary Council, the intraoffice struggles within many government ministries and the intense rivalry between the new Pasdaran revolutionary militia and the now eclipsed armed forces...
...must be careful in answering your question. Change and stability are opposites, they cannot coexist. As long as there is stability there is no change. When there is change the situation is obviously unstable...
...really begin to describe the movie's split personality. This latest Neil Simon-Herbert Ross collaboration is by turns silly and thoughtful, tedious and charming, broad and delicate. It contains some of Simon's best writing as well as his worst: childish jokes about vomiting coexist with wise statements about the art of marriage. So mixed are the returns on California Suite that, if it were an election, one would insist on a recount...