Word: standoff
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...alternate route, the defiant drivers left their vehicles in the street. About three dozen police reinforcements and several antiriot trucks arrived to cordon off the forbidden zone. The resulting traffic jam blocked one of the capital's busiest intersections and set the scene for a two-day standoff that turned into the largest political rally since the country's unprecedented liberalization process began last summer...
...clone of the court's leading conservative. They do not expect a pair of "Arizona twins" to develop and to hang together any more consistently than have the now-splintered "Minnesota twins," Burger and Blackmun. Broadly speaking, the court now has two liberals, Brennan and Marshall, in a standoff facing two conservatives, Rehnquist and Burger. The decisions thus often depend on how the other so-called fluid five divide on a given case. And that rarely can be foreseen...
...Camille Chamoun, titular head of the right-wing Lebanese Front. The two groups have had an uneasy relationship since the end of the civil war between them in 1976. The talks were regarded as a sign that the U.S. intended to involve itself not only in the current missile standoff between Syria and Israel but in Lebanon's own agonizing internal situation as well. It was a crisis that had gone on far too long, and far too dangerously...
...evocation of the '30s working-class underworld-and here he plays camera tricks on the audience without ever cheating. The screenplay takes Madison's point of view, the camera takes the alligator's, and for most of the film they fight each other to a crafty standoff. Aided by Teague's expert direction, Sayles has created a reptilian specter for urban paranoia-alligator as allegory. The beast may not be plausible, but the fear it engenders is. And if the movie doesn't by itself justify claims for Sayles as Hollywood's Renaissance...
...their biggest win for last, triumphing over the University of California at Santa Clara last Friday. Playing number one. Tiina Bougas won in straight sets and Maria Pe followed suit with a three-set victory in the second slot, but the racquetwomen still could manage only a 3-3 standoff after the singles matches. The Crimson then poured it on under the lights by sweeping the three doubles matches...