6 15 A.M. (HBO) MELINDA AND MELINDA (2004) Two playwrights -- one of serious dramas (Larry Pine), the other of comedies (Wallace Shawn) -- speculate on an anecdote about an unhappy young woman named Melinda (Radha Mitchell), who, after crashing a dinner party with an air of distress and a tale of woe, stirs up instabilities within her friends' lives.
7 30 A.M. (HBO) MELINDA AND MELINDA (2005) Two playwrights -- one of dramas (Larry Pine), the other of comedies (Wallace Shawn) -- speculate on an anecdote about an unhappy young woman named Melinda (Radha Mitchell), who, after crashing a dinner party with an air of distress and a tale of woe, stirs up instabilities within her friends' lives.
Bombs and arming rebel groups in Syria don't alleviate ethnic tensions; such actions might actually stir up more instability and fuel more sectarian violence.
Periods of radical change and instability stir our deepest forebodings and awaken the darkest corners of our souls, where fears of catastrophe and apocalyptic endings reside and have always resided.
But this unrest may be only a foretaste of worse to come as accelerating political instability stirs up unhealed ethnic enmities between Burundi's Hutu majority and Tutsi minority.
He points out, for example, that America's great cure-all, democratisation, can actually increase instability and stir up xenophobia, as it has in Gaza, Russia and Iran.
"They're trying to stir up sectarian unrest and instability".
The sight of the ruins that were once open-air street markets, burned stores and overturned cars stirred anxieties, reminding people that instability still loomed close.
He has, we were repeatedly told, stirred their phobia of economic instability and insecurity.
