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News Anchor: The clashes over the fence continue.
We see it in political clashes within groups with different ideologies.
The very idea of becoming involved at the local level clashes fundamentally with existing cultural norms, and it threatens key organizational interests.
In Egypt, I saw another four young people use digital connectivity to organize the supplies and logistics for 10 field hospitals, very large operations, during massive clashes near Tahrir Square in 2011.
Again, this clashes with my work, with my research, with what I see in the field.
At present, I would argue that the racial struggles we are experiencing are clashes over time and space.
Lane acts like an unskilled clueless teenage ingénue throughout - which dynamically clashes with her seriously fading looks - along the way smashing into a variety of (mostly Italian) cardboard stereotypes, dykes, divas, senile contessas and gigolos among them.
The Clown is hardly an original horror film bad guy, but the design is good, Shemp Moseley does a decent job of bringing him to life and the image clashes nicely with the rural backdrop.
The director uses goofy imagery (offered up in the form of daydream sequences) in an apparent attempt to break up the glacial pacing, but instead, it clashes with the authentic look and feel of the movie.
We witness lots of personality clashes, watching how these self-absorbed Hollywood types in the cast snipe at each other.
My wife and I have been TIVOing it regularly and although it clashes it with a couple of other programs we watch it now on MySpace.
It's mostly about strong personality clashes.
Still unfortunately, despite its bravery of dealing with controversial issues as culture clashes between Muslim and western culture, adding generation conflicts and prejudice towards gays/lesbians, it lets you down towards the resolution with a rather simplistic relief to all the suspense built up throughout the film.
But will the average modern-day viewer be able to dig Kolchak and his weekly clashes with the undead?
This scene made some of the things Oscar said and did to Felix later in the movie seem needlessly cruel, and their personality clashes weren't as amusing as they could have been.
They don't come any leaner and meaner than this as Harry romps through a series of violent clashes, with the bad guys getting their just desserts.
His naive will to live a life according to what he thinks is the will of God clashes not only with his unfulfilled sexual desires, but also with the mechanisms of power within the order.
No movie clashes more than "The Wrecking Crew."
The ego clashes of the two pilot candidates for the moon flight seems a bit stilted (Duvall seems at home in the role, but Caan's not up to it), the anti-Soviet rhetoric is a bit grating at times and the female roles are essentially throw-aways.
One of the best scenes has Harry reciting "Star Light, Star Bright" in an aggravated Jack Lemmon voice (which clashes with the poem completely, of course), and it's also the scene where Ellen wishes on the star by saying, "I wish I were a lesbian, that's what I wish.
All this leads to a huge amount of cultural "clashes", but of course, this is a comedy, so it doesn't end in prison.
This film is great at showing the lazy Southern society with its Black servants, white masters, pre-war sentiments, clashes and classes.
Straightaway, it is obvious that there will be clashes and tension between the characters, all with their own ethnic backgrounds and beliefs.
Natalie Wood is less interesting: she's at her most beautiful here, but there's a plastic quality about her work that she can't seem to shake (perhaps she was still stuck in her star-vehicle mode, being overtly 'nutty', and this clashes with the more subtle work of her co-stars).
The emotional issues and the unpredictable clashes can occur with any born-in-the-USA young adults.
This wouldn't be a real problem if other players would have had fierce clashes with each others, but they mostly remained far away; the one in the police station, the other hidden in the oil warehouse.
The cross-cultural clashes are much more bilateral and accurate than in the more acclaimed "Lost in Translation."
There are the usual animosities between soldiers and Indians, and the agent's clashes with the military's preference to disarm the Apache police creates further tensions.
One unusual thing about Kirk Morris is that he always seems to have a "sensitive" look about him, which almost clashes with the general idea of these films.
The ensemble cast clicks and clashes with one another at just the right moments.
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