It's the debate that has long divided animal lovers.
And they certainly need a change and a lift after Seiji Ozawa's 29-year tenure, which has sharply divided music lovers.
It's a sometimes uncomfortable disc that will divide the lovers and the loathers, but that's just the way he'd want it.
Chinese often appear sharply divided between animal lovers and those who see dogs as a threat to the public.
In this film, nature is exactly as beautiful, as dangerous and as unruly as the lovers' divided hearts.
Mr. Hoebee fleetly paces the timeless "Romeo and Juliet" narrative about young lovers divided by their warring clans, which the librettist Arthur Laurents tautly updated to a murderous rivalry among teenage gangs in 1950s New York City.
Both the highly symbolic staircase scene, where Valentin and Miller meet again (she is on her way up, he on his way down), and the unforgettable moment where she drapes herself in Valentin's coat sleeve, are borrowed from this Oscar-winning crowd-pleaser about two lovers divided by war.
To which Imogen responded that Brontë lovers divided into two factions - "those drawn to demure, bookish Miss Eyre and those for whom the pyrotechnical hanky-panky between Cathy Earnshaw and black-browed Heathcliff is paramount" – and called them Librarians and Rock Stars.
"Verona again," people groan as Shakespeare opts for yet another Italian setting, Marlowe selflessly helps Shakespeare conquer his writer's block, and the passionate relationship between Will and Viola follows the arc of that of the lovers, divided by familial circumstance, in Romeo and Juliet.
In some sense "The Reminder" is a concept album: nearly every song seems to be about two lovers "divided by the ocean," though it's never quite clear whether the ocean is a literal one, or whether the division is permanent.
