Word: rancor
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...Wisconsin Gaming Commission, recommended in 1993 that the state revoke Buffalo Brothers' license. Instead, the state fired the director. (Some years later, the state paid him $290,000 to settle a lawsuit over the dismissal.) The disgruntled tribe members sued Buffalo Brothers, and by 1994, amid the rancor, the St. Croix Band bought out its contract, reportedly for more than $30 million. Palmer and his partner exited the state very wealthy men. "I was in the right place at the right time," he later told Sarasota magazine...
...some poor immigrant woman and pay her less than I earn at my job?” or “Equal representation in Parliament is rubbish; any woman sitting as MP will sell us out anyway; look at Thatcher!” But though heated, the arguments lacked rancor, and all the nationalities and ideologies seemed strangely united by the vibrancy and possibility of the moment...
...mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen) and the young U.S. official (Brendan Fraser) who comes between them--represents the Europeans, Vietnamese and Americans who danced on a slippery geopolitical slope that led straight into the Big Muddy. But they are mainly three points on a triangle of love, lust and rancor in a land where emotion, no less than pan-national idealism, revs the heart rate and clouds the vision. Steal a man's woman or connive in a faraway nation's destiny at your peril. Bedfellows make strange politics in this cautionary tale, which is as thoughtful...
...situation wasn’t exactly conducive to healthy social development. It was all love-hate. The intensity of our friendships is something I can never hope to replicate; the entrenched rancor is something I hope I never will. So Harvard was a shock, but not for the reasons others had anticipated. For example, I had to learn what the norms for physical affection were for the rest of the world. My classmates grew up on one another’s bodies, in a constant contact stripped of sexual tension by years of familiarity. At Harvard, this same tactile dependency...
...people who took America into the Vietnam War." The Quiet American dares to pose questions with no easy answers?perhaps no answers at all. That alone makes this one of the year's most thoughtful films. It happens also to be a poignant, visually ravishing parable of lust and rancor set in a paradise lost...