Some have produced rich collaborations (Christo and Jeanne-Claude); others blossomed into nurturing mentorships (Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe), destructive disasters (Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain), fraught rivalries (James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow), and fascinating Freudian family dramas (Woody Allen and Mia Farrow).
Freud and Bacon had an intense friendship, fraught with rivalry yet also, it is said, sexually charged.
That Australia and England share a long, often fun, often fraught sporting rivalry has been well documented, and it remains at the core of Australian-Great British Olympic enmity.
LONDON — David Miliband, the former British foreign secretary who lost a party leadership contest to his younger brother, said Wednesday that he was quitting front-line politics, drawing to an end a fraught sibling rivalry that had divided both a family and a political party.
He points out that some of the most fraught economic rivalries in recent history the space race of the 1960s and Japan's rise in the 1980s provoked creative rather than defensive responses.But he is nevertheless worried about the sirens of protectionism.
And just as the first generation of DVD technology has been fraught with corporate rivalries and confusion over incompatible formats, it's not clear that the new Toshiba-NEC technology will enjoy a smooth ride.
All the better if the relationship is fraught with repressed resentment and rivalry.
The two teams have been playing each other since the 1919-20 season, but the rivalry became particularly fraught in the '60s, Conroy said, when some Citadel students attempted to steal the horse that the Furman mascot, a knight, used to ride and, while trying to cram it into a car trunk, inadvertently killed the poor beast.
But I remember having a vision about my brother with whom my relationship had always been fraught - the usual sibling rivalries carried to some pretty nasty and petty extremes.
First base is a fraught position in the Boston-New Yorker rivalry.
