Bromell's critique of Cold War culture is more wistful than outraged, and his generosity makes his characters ring true: the C.I.A. station chief breaking down at a cocktail party while playing charades; the boyish king struggling to reconcile his nomadic heritage with his shiny Corvette.
The Kings struggled during the regular season, winning 40 of 82 games.
Mughal kings struggled to rule the territory over four centuries ago, lamenting that Bengal was "a house of turbulence".
On Wednesday, the Kings, struggling at the bottom of the Pacific Division, traded Peja Stojakovic for Ron Artest, leaving point guard Mike Bibby as the only King from the 2001-2 team.
The Kings struggled alongside baseball and football teams in Cincinnati and Kansas City, finding prosperity only in 1985 when Greg Lukenbill, then the owner, moved the team to Sacramento, a growing city devoid of big-league sports.
The Kings struggled in the stretch leading up to the All-Star break, dropping three of four games.
At the time, a power struggle was developing there between Queen Amalasuntha, regent to the young king Athalaric, and her cousin Theodahad.
In this film, Rossellini (with the screenwriter Jean Gruault), traces the rise of modern French culture — indeed, of modern France — to very specific moments in the young king's struggle to preserve his fragile reign.
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa wrote the novel Ualalapi (1987), which deals with an African king who struggled against Portuguese colonialism.
Before becoming king, Abdullah struggled to preserve an independent power base through his command of the National Guard, a large, paramilitary force drawn largely from desert tribes.
James VI of Scotland had just become James I of England, but not yet Great Britain, a radical concept the new king was struggling to sell to his people.
