The case arose from a lovers' quarrel involving Jaclyn Kurr and her boyfriend, Antonia Pena, the man who had impregnated her.
In Cannes, the movie encountered a controversy that had less to do with veracity or its political implications than with its format -- a territorial quarrel involving the historical (and increasingly obsolete) antagonism between film and television.
Charles IX had usurped the throne, having ejected his nephew Sigismund III Vasa (who was also king of Poland) in 1599, and the resulting dynastic quarrel involved Sweden and Poland in a war that continued intermittently for 60 years.
The movie's most disturbing and shocking scene is a little reminiscent of Christos Tsiolkas's novel The Slap: Anton intervenes in a petty playground quarrel involving Elias's little brother; the other parent furiously smacks Anton's face.
Several of the Gardner family's friends and neighbors said they had not been aware of any quarrel involving her, Mr. Williams or Mr. Bryant, who is also well known in the area.
The quarrel involved an appeal over the jurisdiction of the archbishop, that Thomas sent to Rome in 1281, but Thomas died before the case could be decided.
"The most important consideration is what's in the best interest of the children who are wards of the state," said Benjamin Wolf, associate legal director of American Civil Liberties Union Illinois, which has been active in the ongoing quarrel involving Catholic Charities and two other faith-based agencies' policies on the issue.
Usually such quarrels involve worldly goods and rival claims to be the true believers.
Our main quarrel with Mr. Ray involves timing -- that is, the decision to release the report only three weeks before voters go to the polls to choose between Mrs. Clinton and Rick Lazio in a closely contested Senate race.
And so the funniest tale Cline tells of the long-gone time is also the saddest and, in a way, the most telling: it involves the quarrel of two Egyptian kings, Apophis and Seknere.
