Above all, the production becomes topical in its jolting reminder that war acquires its own unstoppable logic: when a bunch of suits rush to shut up the bawling Clytemnestra you see how armed conflict suspends the laws of decency.
A1 Deadlocked talks on ending the conflict were suspended, and President Boris Trajkovski sought international help in breaking the impasse.
The demilitarized zone was created at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, when the conflict was suspended in a truce.
Instead, Clarkson, a right wing with a reputation for not shying away from conflict, was suspended for the first 10 regular-season games after leaving the bench to join an altercation during a preseason game against the Buffalo Sabres on Sept. 22. "I sometimes make decisions with my heart, not my head," he said.
This is the period in which altruism becomes the norm, and old rivalries and conflicts are suspended.
For example, at the Diet of Speyer in 1526 - essentially an imperial parliament - the established order sought to reduce conflict by suspending the 1521 Edict of Worms, which had declared Luther as a heretic and banned his writings.
Negotiations to end the Afghan conflict have been suspended "indefinitely," a U.N. representative said after discussions ended.
For more than half a century, this small village in the demilitarised zone that divides the Korean peninsula has been frozen in suspended conflict.
At present, he said, the conflict was merely suspended, since the belligerents had not accepted the ceasefire imposed by the United Nations.
Among the recent accounts of the suspended conflict is "Memory of Forgotten War," a documentary by Bay Area filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem and her Boston College professor brother-in-law, Ramsay Liem.
