The traditional town-gown friction pitting Morningside Heights residents against Columbia University has turned upside down, with neighbors praising the university and developers criticizing it.
In contrast to some cases of town-gown friction, New York's U.N. campus is a fitting mirror of the city's own history as a mixing point of cultures and aspirations.
But Dr. Burchell said the creation of the environmental map would probably cause further friction as town officials and planners try to determine which map should take precedence.
"Why should I have to explain to them why I want to live in my home?" Friction between town officials and the roughly 2,000 homeowners in what is known as the R-10 zone has increased in recent years as values in those areas have risen.
King's personality and philosophies alike are portrayed through the prism of one specific, strategically crucial career battle: the 1965 marches for voting rights in the eponymous Alabama town and the heated friction they inspired both within and against his camp.
The friction between Halloween Town, ruled over by Jack Skellington, and the far cosier Christmas Town, which lies outside Jack's dominion and comprehension, is for Elfman symbolic on several levels.
"There was a lot of class and racial friction in northern towns like Liverpool in the late-80s, but at raves different classes, races and sub-groups of people all mixed together," says Russell. "It was bit like the hippies in the mid to late-60s, mixing together underneath values of love and peace".
The cameras of "Boomtown" land sometime in the middle of this big oil versus small town face-off, and yet instead of friction, find transactions smoothed by money and imperfect information.
It is a town of pleasure-seeking animals only gratified by buttery foods and genital friction.
[cartoon id= a20756"] Things are noisier and busier in "Léon Morin, Priest," which twitches with the feuds and the frictions, great and small, that beset a French provincial town during the war.
