"The dynamic of everyday clashes and the Hamas attempt to channel its internal problems towards Israel, this can be a recipe for escalation, without plan or enthusiasm," Milstein said, warning of a potential flare-up before the Israeli elections.
In particular, while new Soviet housing projects obviously raised the standard of living of a great portion of the population, in resolving the housing problem, they also dismantled the "stranger's gaze" – the everyday urban clashes that, enabled by denunciations and an efficient and brutal NKVD – that had dominated Soviet housing until then.
One of the angels (Bruno Ganz, again) falls in love with a trapeze artist, and like a lugubrious, existential version of David Niven in A Matter of Life and Death, exchanges the black-and-white lyricism of the infinite for the colour-clash chaos of everyday human reality.
"It's the classic clash between organizational obligations versus our everyday ethics -- our lives as human beings," said Peter Madsen, executive director for the Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Perhaps not, according to a virtual reality experiment that suggests that we ignore what we see if it clashes with our assumptions about the everyday world.
But one of the pleasures of "Everyday People" is the way it slips around predictable clashes to pursue subtler harmonies.
Our school was forced to close a few times because of roadblocks; protests, clashes and other forms of demonstration were an everyday occurrence.
This mash-up of clashing worlds and ways, folding the extraordinary into the everyday — Zorn has a sword, but he also has a cellphone — is, to be sure, something of a formula.
Bloody clashes between guerillas and the Indian army were part of everyday life in tribal hills.
One favourite theme is the tragicomic clash between the soul's infinite aspirations and the trivial restrictions of everyday life.
