Word: conflicts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Zarkov (Topol). The results of this obsession are colorful: large and small battles, peril to Dale's virtue ("Prepare her for my pleasure," intones Ming at one point), sundry bondage fantasies. The high points are a whip fight staged on a wildly tilting platform and a concluding conflict that features an attack by the Hawkmen, hearty barbarians who flap about on giant wings. Max Von Sydow has a good time as Ming, and Ornella Muti, as his daughter, is simply gorgeous. All in all, Flash Gordon is as good an approximation of the hard-edged, gaudy comic-book style...
...glorious incarnation in Mirella Freni, whose voice may not move pyramids but finds its way to the heart of the role. This is particularly true in the Nile Scene, where Aïda tussles with her passion for Radames and her love of country. It is a surefire conflict that, after more than a century and countless productions, can easily turn into a theatrical and musical cliché. Von Karajan and his longtime protegee Freni make...
...witnesses were those same people who had been manhandled," Benjamin I. Schwartz, Williams Professor of History and Political Science and a member of the Committee of Fifteen, says, adding, "And I can't say that it was absolutely infallible." But neither does he think it was an irreconcilable conflict of interest...
...Murphy, 54, of Staten Island is chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Last week they became the most powerful men convicted in the Abscam probe to date. A Brooklyn jury found Thompson guilty of bribery and conspiracy and convicted Murphy of receiving an unlawful gratuity, conflict of interest and conspiracy. They face jail sentences of up to 22 years for Thompson and nine for Murphy...
...West "virtually an oasis civilization," and ranchers formerly fought pitched battles to control water holes for their herds. As long ago as 1893, the explorer Major John Wesley Powell warned the First International Irrigation Conference in Los Angeles: "I tell you, gentlemen, you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation of water rights, for there is not sufficient water to supply the land." Today nearly every river in the West is either fully used or overused. Throughout...