Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ones are still unresolved, like the conflict between Congress and the Executive over which branch has the power to commit U.S. troops abroad. But no matter how technical or tortuous the case before them, the Justices can put their decision to the tests posed by Warren: "Is it fair? Is it right...
...make it a nation that many neighbors would be willing to follow. TIME'S Philip Finnegan reports that for the past two years Saudi Arabian officials have been holding secret talks with the Egyptians in Cairo and Riyadh. The meetings have covered topics ranging from the Iran-Iraq conflict to the threat of Islamic fundamentalism. Yet even if Saudi Arabia were inclined to renew bonds with Egypt, it would most probably work in harmony with the other gulf states...
...many men, Oedipal conflict lasts long after they have resolved their feelings toward their mothers. Fathers and sons may skirmish for decades, matching physical prowess, social grace, perhaps sexual daring and, above all, worldly accomplishment. There is rarely a true reckoning; death and memory seem only to prolong the sense of contest. Sons of famous men find the scorekeeping particularly onerous: whatever the offspring's achievements, both generations are likely to suspect that the father's glory enhanced them. That psychic battleground is toured by Michael J. Arlen, 53, a journalist, memoirist and television critic...
...petulant silences, terse complaints or brooding bedroom confidences to his wife. The dominant mood of the story is foreboding, not confrontation. Arlen enlarges the narrative with flashbacks, precise observations of the Southwestern landscape, persuasively detailed descriptions of scenes from Sam's imaginary film classics. He keeps the conflict from becoming one-sided by displaying Sam's abrupt charms and convincing manifestations of primitive genius: a ruthless urge to simplify, instantaneous judgment about character, a capacity for total absorption coupled with the short attention span of a child. Sam lives, with seeming entitlement, outside the rules...
Bernard MacLaverty, in adapting his 1983 novel for the screen, has preserved a penetrating economy of story-telling. With his small cast of characters, MacLavery deftly illustrates the tensions between sides in the Northern Ireland conflict, presenting frail attempts at connection and willful acts of destruction. The division between the ordinary and the terrible, the human and inhuman, are made disturbingly ambiguous...