Word: strife
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Henry IV. By William Shakespeare. Through Jan. 2. A glorious compound of comedy, drama, and history, as seen through generational conflicts and civil strife. Through two parts, the events are played out against a background of colorful panoply and tumultuous battles. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge. 547-8300. $18-$42. Tuesday - Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m. Sunday...
United Airlines rejected a bid from two of its unions to sell itself to its employees. As it faced threats of labor strife, the nation's second largest carrier was reported weighing the possibility of splitting the company into as many as five smaller carriers...
...angst-ridden American parents who question the prevalence of violence and strife in the media should read Laurie Colwin's final novel, A Big Storm Knocked It Over. When they emerge blinking with stupefaction from this warm and cuddly narrative of domestic tranquility, they'll be begging for gratuitous blood-letting. If tragedy enthralls us with its cathartic resonance, and comedy with the pleasure of averted tragedy, then Colwin must have hoped to seduce us with sheer banality. There's no narrative crescendo, no crisis, no risk of a crisis; in short, no plot. You can revel in the lucid...
This realism, however, does not prevent Kaige from engaging in artistic symbolism; the lake where the boys, who meet as children in a troupe of actors-in-training, practice their singing is a cool, calm respite from the political strife that dominates the movie, and its diffused, early-morning lighting and wide stretches of green lilypads give it an almost dream-like quality. When Dieyi succumbs to opium addiction later in the film, Kaige focuses on a giant fish bowl to convey his trapped, drugged state, out of which he is forced by the will of Xiaolou...
...York's last election, the main issue was the racial strife that threatened to tear the city apart. Dinkins, a black liberal Democrat who promoted himself as the right man to soothe those tensions, eked out a victory over his white Republican rival to become the city's first African American chief executive. Race relations in the Big Apple haven't improved much since then. But New Yorkers now express more concern about crime, jobs, affordable housing and effective schools...