Word: friction
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...public forgave, or forgot. Lucky that it did, because now audiences will get to see her in Jade Goddess as An Xin, a policewoman who faces an unwanted pregnancy, friction at headquarters and an affair with a drug trafficker (Tse) whom she is assigned to hunt down. Zhao's performance must, and does, show the weight of these dilemmas as they threaten to crush her. The mood on the set was nearly as serious as that in the film, but Zhao says she respects the care Hui took with every element of production. "In the morning, when I'd come...
Still, they say this friction can be good for the final product...
...time Kidd was promoted to associate dean last year, the friction between her and PBHA was a distant memory, and she had won admiration for being accessible to students. But when the SafetyWalk story broke, old criticisms of Kidd’s team reemerged...
Ruth V. Jesus ’05, a native of Portugal, actually felt more friction with her American peers than with the local Brazilian culture. But she still sums up her experiences in Brazil last fall—and Sweden last summer—as largely beneficial...
...rewriting school textbooks to marginalize the place of Muslims in India's history. Even as the party touts Vajpayee as its benign, paternal face at the national level, it allows some of its local leaders to ignore any harassment of Muslims by Hindus in their states. And despite the friction between the BJP and its right-wing support base, the party will still use the RSS, which has 50,000 branches throughout India and at least 2 million active members, during the coming elections. RSS members are expected to campaign for the BJP and to take over some party jobs...