Word: frictioned
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...cultural hybrids," West asserts that for people of African descent, "there's a New World dimension, there's a U.S. dimension. New world Africans dream in European languages and play European instruments but also fuse them with African Polyrhythms, African intonations and so forth...[T]here's tension and friction always there for those of us in the New World. The question is whether we can make it creative or whether it becomes destructive." Keeping Faith is West's direct effort to reconcile the African-American to a New World environment...
...broached. "I'd rather have the freedom to say what I want. Sometimes I wish I were more graceful, but, hey, I'm not -- though I'm working on it. And frankly, I'm more interested in people who are deemed difficult. Usually difficulty is just another word for friction, and friction creates heat. I think friction is a good thing...
...semiconductor market held by foreign companies. For the first three quarters of 1993, the foreigners' share has fallen and has been stuck below a benchmark 20% share negotiated by the two governments. The Administration wants to fight for the U.S. computer-chip industry, but it does not want trade friction to topple Japan's fragile reform coalition government...
...will be the first career military officer to become Defense Secretary since George Marshall left the job in 1951, the admiral might not be any more forthcoming with the military than Aspin was. That's because, matters of style aside, the outgoing Secretary took few positions that led to friction with Pentagon brass. Though he came to the job willing to entertain the idea that the U.S should be prepared to use force selectively to solve regional problems like Bosnia and Haiti, he quickly became a defender of General Powell's all-or-nothing view that in places where...
...years ago, that internecine friction was challenged by Gloria Steinem in Revolution from Within and especially by Susan Faludi in Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. You might call Naomi Wolf, whose Fire with Fire (Random House; $21) has just been published, a colonist of the territory that Steinem and Faludi staked out. Their message was that women were being fed cynical lampoons of feminists and not-so-subtle suggestions that liberation was responsible for any feelings they had of frustration or of "superwoman" tension. Steinem in particular countered such propaganda by preaching self-esteem...