Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...several months now, the United States and its ideological allies have rested easy as the political situation in south Africa has remained fairly tranquil. Friction between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National congress had ebbed, and rightist whites had been held in check by the government. But an ill-timed holdout against free elections by Lucas Mangope, president of the "Black homeland" Bophuthatswana, swept the whole nation into hysteria...
...knew that speed skaters can and do go down. That has been Dan's singular contribution to the common body of knowledge about his discipline. On Monday, 300 m into the race of his life, it began to happen again. Out went Jansen's hand to steady himself, the friction of it scraping along the ice probably enough to cause the thirty-five hundreths of a second's difference between gold and Jansen's eighth-place finish. "You lose so much momentum, it's hard to get the speed back," he said after he recovered his composure...
Fellini has said about his films that he never really has a final scene. His stories, he says, show a state of friction in the relationships that ought to exist between people, some anxiety or some trouble. This is indeed reflected in "La dolce vita." For Fellini ends the film on the beach, where the drunken party finds its end. All the partygoers stare down at a dead fish prone on the shore, its glassy eyes staring out, but at nothing. Marcello looks over and sees an innocent and angelic girl whom he met while taking his interim from journalism...
...large, this process is not what has aroused controversy. Rather, the source of the friction has been the criteria established by the Finance Committee to determine its grant recommendations, which in a solid majority of cases are ultimately approved by the full Council...
...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...