Word: tug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three stories, combining East and West, are the book's best: quick, penetrating and often amusing glimpses of the immigrant experience in London. This is the subject Rushdie treated so brilliantly and, as it turned out, so dangerously in The Satanic Verses. No one writes more convincingly of the tug between old and new, home and the allure of the unknown. Since these stories cannot make things worse for Rushdie than they already are, he has, on the page, the luxury of total freedom...
...Taylor recorded an album with tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. It is difficult to find a more bizarre record anywhere. With Coltrane struggling mightily to cling to his own advanced harmonic world against Taylor's barrage of atonal clusters, jarring rhythmic patterns, and jackhammer assaults on the piano, a profound tug-of-war between two musical camps ensues. Nobody wins, and the tension produced is exhausting both for the musicians and listeners. Still, this has to be one of the most interesting recordings of American music ever made. It has the curiosity value that one might experience hearing Frank Zappa conduct...
...then the hijackers had dropped their demand for the liberation of the F.I.S. leaders; now they insisted on being flown to Paris. That triggered a tug-of-war between the Algerians, who were adamant that the plane stay in Algiers, and the French, who wanted it on their territory so they could deal with the situation directly. Things came to a head late on Dec. 25, when the terrorists laid down an ultimatum: if the boarding ramp was not pulled back and the plane was not allowed to take off before 9:30 p.m., they would kill a hostage every...
...days and several NFL lifetimes ago, could have forecast the Pats' meteoric rise to football stardom, save perhaps the looney in the Steve Grogan-autographed jersey out in Foxboro or Fall River or somewhere else within range of the "Hub's" almighty tug...
...after President Clinton unveiled his version of middle-class tax cuts, a rhetorical tug-of war began between the White House and congressional Republicans over whose plan was fairest to taxpayers -- and how far toward the GOP camp Clinton's plan must move to win Republican approval. Even as Clinton aides continued hashing out additional provisions, Republicans chided the president as a johnny-come-lately and said the "Contract With America" gave citizens more benefits. (Incoming House Majority leader Richard Armey of Texas even dubbed Clinton's package "Contract-lite.") The White House, anticipating the barbs, threw a briefing featuring...