Word: tinderbox
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...conflict between gays and the military is a tinderbox, not least because each side sees itself as an embattled minority culture much misunderstood and views the other as a privileged beneficiary of special treatment. Further bedeviling the issue is that each side is partly right. The military case against openly permitting homosexuals is, in essence, that they will cause discomfort to the heterosexual majority already in place, especially if gay soldiers become more open in asserting their sexual preferences. The progay case, as articulated by Clinton, is that they can make a contribution and the country can use the help...
...filmmaker of genius. And yet you have to cherish, like a guilty conscience, any writer-director who can outrage so many people with a melodrama set in the ghetto tinderbox (Do the Right Thing), a musical about skin-tone prejudice among blacks (School Daze), an interracial love and lust story (Jungle Fever...
...long ago, the reputation of the Balkans as the tinderbox of Europe seemed , to have faded. Now the region is once again in flames, igniting fears of a broader conflagration. For years, Yugoslavia was the acceptable face of communism: estranged from Moscow, a pioneer of peaceful coexistence with the West, a country whose rugged Adriatic coastline attracted tens of thousands of vacationers. But last week that idyllic image was irreparably shattered. After three months of ethnic skirmishing, hapless Yugoslavia erupted in the first full-scale war in Europe since 1945. The fighting between federal forces and breakaway Croatia gave Europe...
Othello is perhaps the most exciting of all Shakespeare's tragedies. The text is a tinderbox of cultural tensions between Black and White, Male and Female, East and West. But Judith Williams' Experimental Theater production loses the excitement entirely. Most of the players are as insensitive and lifeless as high school students forced to memorize and recite Shakespeare for a grade...
...cities of China are a tinderbox," he adds. "Events in the cities can topple a government or threaten a government...