With great power and subtlety, Farhadi transforms this ugly quarrel into a contemporary tragedy.
Michael Weller's "Fifty Words" (well directed by Austin Pendleton, at the Lucille Lortel) turns an ordinary marital quarrel into an extraordinary debacle.
He is interested, however, in leveraging the steel quarrel into a different kind of opportunity, as can be glimpsed in a letter he sent to his American counterpart, Robert Zoellick, in mid-February.
The lawyer for Detective Anthony Vasquez said that the victim, Patrick M. Dorismond, 26, a security guard for a Midtown business association, had grown belligerent after being asked by another undercover detective if he had any marijuana to sell, and had suddenly escalated the quarrel into violence after all three officers in the confrontation tried to back off.
To quote the brilliant Lester Adelson, "With its particular lethality, a gun converts a spat into a slaying and a quarrel into a killing".
To quote the brilliant Lester Adelson, "With its peculiar lethality, a gun converts a spat into a slaying and a quarrel into a killing".
Some Labour people hoped that, after another defeat, the Tory party—once the Western world's greatest election-winning machine would quarrel itself into oblivion.That was less than a year ago.
But Mr. Sharon finds himself in the challenging position of a ballet master, trying to bring together many quarreling performers into an exquisitely intricate dance.
The term "lovers' quarrel" came into my head at the very moment the girl lifted her face and Mallory yelled, "Stop!" "It's a lovers' quarrel," I said, ever so slightly depressing the accelerator.
The reasons for this haste are still the subject of debate, but it is probable that Mountbatten wanted to shock the quarrelling parties into realizing that they were hurtling toward a sectarian precipice.
