Word: friction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lives of a dozen or so denizens of the porn biz. Loosely based on the life of John C. Holmes, porn's biggest male star, Boogie Nights has panoramic ambitions: a tapestry-style narrative, labyrinthine tracking shots, explosions of random, firecracker violence. Nashville meets GoodFellas meets Pulp Friction. The film doesn't quite get there, but it packs a wad of compelling entertainment on its road to triple-X oblivion...
...communications in February and was assigned the Sisyphean task of lifting Gingrich's approval ratings, will return to the private sector by August. G.O.P. leadership sources tell TIME the shake-up was engineered by JOE GAYLORD, an outside adviser to Gingrich whose power has been a constant source of friction on the Speaker's staff and in high G.O.P. circles. "Gaylord is the immovable object in Newt's life," says an aide to a top House Republican. "Tom never had a chance." In what he's telling associates is "the offer of a lifetime," Blank will become a senior executive...
...enterprise intended to preserve international amity, the expansion of NATO has produced a discomforting amount of friction and ill will. Even this week's summit could turn into a "food fight," as an American official puts it, because the U.S. has ruled that only three new countries will be admitted to NATO in the first round, though others are to come in later. The welcome mat is out for the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. But France, Italy, Canada and other members of the alliance were pushing the candidacies of Romania and Slovenia, and in some conference rooms charges...
...miles wide--glaciers within a glacier, in effect--look like frozen rapids when seen from space. Only if time-lapse photography could collapse many hundreds of years would the continent look alive as the ice flowed and cracked, redistributing its mass according to the laws governing gravity and friction...
...Because the school cultures are different and aspects of the curriculum and teaching style are different, it is inevitable that there would be friction and indeed there was," Thompson says...