Word: conflict
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pandora's box of little involuntary creatures, buzzing and defecating and copulating, that Joan Miro opened in the 1920s. And like those dreambugs, Winters' fungi and spores have a distinctly human air. In their aggregation, they refer to social structures: hives, crowds, nests, colonies. They suggest hierarchies and sometimes conflict. But all this is decidedly muffled, submerged so far in the paint that it hardly works as allegory. Winters does not want to make his images specific: "I want them to trigger multiple readings, so that they somehow function above and below language, not exactly on the line." But some...
...DENYING the Contadora group full support, Washington is putting the countries of Central America in a position where they have to choose between the friendship of the Northern power or of a Central American neighbor. Contadora will never resolve the Nicaraguan conflict without active U.S. participation. The Reagan Administration has steadfastly ignored Contadora's objectives: peace, democracy and stability, in both the long and short term. It is up to Congress to incorporate these goals into U.S. policy...
...protective ex-husband (Jim Keach) announces that he does not approve of her new job and the negative influence the football players have on their daughters. He tries to cajole her into quitting. Then he tries the "what about the children" angle, giving Molly a small, if cliched, emotional conflict; kids...
Although compulsory chapel was abolished at Harvard in 1886, a University rule prohibiting professors from holding classes that conflict with traditional 8:45 a.m. religious services endures...
...President who was thought to be leading the rebellion, thereby fueling speculation that he had been killed when fighting began two weeks ago. Late in the week, the radio reported that the insurgents had chosen Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al Attas, who had been in Moscow since the conflict started, as acting leader...