O. Scott) 'Another Happy Day' (R, 1 55) The mighty Ellens — Barkin and Burstyn — chew the scenery in this strident wedding melodrama, in which generational and marital factions of a strife-torn family collide and grind out angry sparks.
This wedding melodrama, in which generational and marital factions of a strife-torn family collide, seems acutely aware of its place in the lineage of a genre that it carries to a screeching decibel level.
IN the year 29477, at the distant end of a strife-torn galaxy, one of the most famous residents of the planet Rubi-Ka is a genetically engineered mutant called Thedeacon.
It will need to keep sufficient forces and staging points in the region to strike effectively against terrorist sanctuaries there or a Qaeda bid to hijack control of a strife-torn Iraq.
THIS week's unexpected breakthrough in pay talks between Germany's employers and the country's biggest union, IG Metall, has diminished fears of a strife-ridden bargaining round and a burst of higher wages that would have jolted Europe's biggest economy and prompted a euro-threatening spurt in inflation.
They said it is the prospect of mass departure of large numbers of people whose roots are in neighboring African nations, who were drawn by the lure of plentiful jobs in Ivory Coast's once-booming economy, that poses the greatest threat to the stability of a strife-prone region.
A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles".
It's the beginning of a civil strife in Turkey".
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!
Plutarch seems to believe that Pericles and the Athenians incited the war, scrambling to implement their belligerent tactics "with a sort of arrogance and a love of strife".
It provides a banquet of rich dramatic meat, a keen sense of familial strife and a series of attention-grabbing roles for its big-name players.
