Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bartley later told the newspaper he would return the $8,000 netted at the event to avoid any hint of a conflict...
...densely layered work moving with confident, compulsive energy. One sequence is set in Chicago's Union Station, where Ness and Stone must take a key witness from the Mob's protective custody. Into their stakeout blunders a mother maneuvering a baby carriage up a staircase. What delirious conflict between Ness the lawman and Ness the family man, as he tries to protect the infant and simultaneously conduct a shoot-out. What wild comedy in this conflict between duty and humanity. And De Palma ices the cake by shooting the scene as a parody of Eisenstein's Odessa Steps sequence from...
...Racial conflict was also behind an attempted skyjacking in Fiji last week. An Indian airport worker, Amzad Ali, took over an Air New Zealand 747 that was making a stopover between Tokyo and Auckland, New Zealand. Armed with dynamite and a knife, he threatened to blow up the aircraft unless all ousted government leaders were released. Ali allowed the 105 passengers and 23 crew members to disembark but held captive the captain, the first officer and the | flight engineer. After six tense hours, the flight engineer ended the siege by hitting the hijacker over the head with a bottle...
Indeed, the gold rush has set off a multisided conflict that now seems to be escalating. Indian activists accuse the Salesians (named after the 17th century French saint Francis de Sales) of destroying their traditional culture and replacing it with the values of European Christianity. At the same time, the Indians face aggressive outsiders: mining companies, free-lance prospectors and the Brazilian military. Bringing this simmering conflict to a head is the imminent retirement of Dom Miguel Alagna, 75, the autocratic bishop who for the past 20 years has reigned over the Arizona-size diocese from his unpretentious whitewashed brick...
...good number of the people concerned about the events of this spring have speculated that the more virulent environment may have been created by television's appetite for confrontation. "Television discovered the value of conflict and controversy," Howard Baker, White House chief of staff, told the venerable Scotty Reston of the New York Times...