Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between the sartorially splendid Mods and the hot-rodding Rockers. One British sociologist claims that their hostility is based on class. The Mods are artisans and office workers, he claims, and look down on the Rockers, who tend to be scruffy worker types. As a London Mod explains the feud, "The Rockers are just interested in their cycles. This isolates them. Mods are more aware, fast moving, hip. With us, it's like a club. If you wear the right clothes, you're accepted...
...group of Western experts, pointing out that Rumania had carefully steered a neutral course in the SinoSoviet feud, argued that the trip was made on behalf of the Soviets in order to show the Red bloc that Moscow was more reasonable than Peking. As evidence, the experts pointed out that the Soviet Ambassador to Bucharest had seen the Rumanians off at the airport, and that the delegation had wired fraternal greetings to Khrushchev as their plane entered Soviet airspace...
...plot comes clear. The boy and girl are in love because their love is forbidden; their feuding fathers have constructed a wall between their homes. But the fathers are no fools. They know that youths are rebels and will want what is denied them. In "Never Say No" the girl's father (Ron Lockhart) and the boy's father (Stephen Cotler) hilariously reveal the devilish ways of adults; they have contrived the feud and constructed the wall to make sure that their children will fall in love...
...action begins. Boy must get girl, lose girl, and get her back; or, in the metaphor of the play, the wall must be destroyed, be reconstructed, and finally be surmounted. To end the feud and crush the wall, the hire the Narrator, who is now a "Professional Abductor" known as El Gallo (he carries a card). The rape is a grand success (that is, it is a magnificent failure) and the act closes with the wall dismantled, and the families united in bliss, apparently about to live happily ever after...
Last week, to the astonishment of most Italian businessmen, the long feud between E.N.I, and Gulf Italia ended, and the two protagonists prepared to join in a $150 million oil deal. Nicky Pignatelli, 40, is no man to run from a fight; he had held off the left by forcefully debating Mattei face to face, once successfully sued a Communist newspaper for libel after it accused Gulf Italia of using improperly obtained government surveys to locate its oil. On the other hand, the prince is not inclined to fight needlessly when a deal can be made. E.N.I.'s pipelines...