These eight history plays imaginatively dramatize troubled English kings and their heirs during the 15th century, when the Plantagenet dynasty degenerated into the clashing houses of Lancaster and York.
In the real world, like the New York suburbs, the irreconcilable clash of housing demand and Nimbyism leads to a painful standoff, and to people ricocheting off to points north, south and west of here.
In the Bebonuc neighbourhood, for instance, violent gang clashes and house burnings prompted the principals to keep their schools closed rather than put the children at risk.
The two longtime rivals loathed each other and clashed over housing policy.
Still, initial reaction was cautious, or even dubious, something that was not surprising given the frequent clashes between housing groups and the Bush administration.
After Rafael E. Cestero, the new president of C.P.C. Resources, reached an agreement to sell the property to Two Trees for $165 million, Katan offered to buy it for $185 million with the Chetrit Group and David Bistricer, a developer who has clashed with housing advocates.
In Wimpole Street, where we were making the first Clash album, Spaghetti House was the place to go for spaghetti, risotto and mushrooms.
The aesthetic clash between country house splendour and grunge production - 'the bow tie meets the video-cam', in Vinterberg's words - threatens the characters' complacency even as it relieves the cast.
But whatever common ground House Republicans and Democrats might share, the parties seemed likely to clash over the housing issue for weeks to come.
The clash between the houses of York and Lancaster was described as England's bloodiest battle by historian Christopher Gravett.
