Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This sets up the ongoing conflict of the story: the fight-unto-death for the affections, body and soul of Verena between the two listeners. Olive Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave) and Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve...
...result is that Schell is neither here nor there; he cannot please the million marchers in Central Park who demand simply and unequivocally. "No more nukes:" and those who want a solution they can push through Congress and then through the Kremlin. Of course, this seeming conflict has always tied anti-nuke thinkers up in knots, and that...
...fighters in the Navy's Atlantic Fleet equipped with the Phoenix air-to-air missile, 32 were recently either in maintenance or storage. The report quotes a senior Army commander in the Pacific as saying that if a war in Europe preceded a conflict in Korea, "the U.S. troops in Korea best learn how to swim to Japan as there is nothing left to reinforce them...
...Persian Gulf war has dragged on without end, although not for want of peacemakers. During the past four years, many governments and organizations have offered to serve as intermediaries in the conflict between Iran and Iraq. But Iran has refused all help. The door has now opened a crack. After a two-day visit to Tehran, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher reported last week that Iran was ready to "break through the ring of isolation" and "begin a political dialogue with the West...
...CLASSIC hero-villain conflict of the movie is, however, somewhat problematic. Morris Day and his sidekick--ex-roadie, ex-football-player Jerome Benton--are hilarious as a self-caricaturingly "sharp" twosome, complete with Abbott and Costello routines. They enjoy dressing up, abusing women--in one of the first scenes they dump a troublesome one into a trash can--and being generally vicious. The Kid spends his time dressing up (though in spike-heeled white boots rather than two-tone shoes), mistreating women, and being generally misunderstood and abusive. Quite a contrast...