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They bring certain modes of conflict resolution back from the old country. The Sopranos s5e9: Unidentified Black Males Meadow to boyfriend, HBO 2004
It’s not in my power to decide such a great dispute between you. Virgil, Eclogues
Doubtful disputations. Romans 14:1
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. Saint Augustine
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. A P Herbert
In any dispute, each side thinks it’s in the right and the other side is demons. Steven Pinker
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy – but he who has shown the better temper. Samuel Butler
A long dispute means both parties are wrong. Voltaire
It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable. William Penn
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms. Aristotle
The Plaza Hotel 18 August 1992: I am greatly saddened … [by] allegations instigated by her of child abuse on my part. Allen v Farrow I, Woody’s press conference, Sky Documentaries 2021
For the longest time I’ve been trying to set the record straight. ibid. Dylan Farrow
That’s the great regret of my life that I wasn’t perceptive enough. It’s my fault. I brought this guy into our family. You know, there’s nothing I can do to take that away. ibid. Mia
I had seven children and he didn’t want to meet them at all. ibid. Mia
Sometimes there’s a murder or mystery or something but it’s basically always an older guy trying to deal with this younger woman and him dealing with that. Allen v Farrow II, Richard Morgan, journalist, or unused film scripts
Both Allen’s doorman and the building manager testified in court to having seen Soon-Yi visit Allen many times during her senior year of high school and first year of college … Several months after Soon-Yi graduated high school, Mia discovered explicit photos of her in Allen’s apartment. ibid. caption
The private lives of Woody Allen and the Farrow family would become very public in August of 1992. A series of investigations and law-suits followed which generated tens of thousands of court and police documents most of which were never made public. Allen v Farrow III
‘Mr Allen’s behaviour toward Dylan was grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her.’ ibid. trial judge
Woody Allen denies ever having been sexually inappropriate or abusive with Dylan and was never criminally charged. ibid. caption
How would you know? So I never brought them home. Allen v Farrow IV, re further boyfriends
During the Republican and Democratic conventions of 1968 ABC News hired the conservative William F Buckley and the liberal Gore Vidal for ten nightly debates on national television. Best of Enemies ***** 2015
ABC was the third of the three networks … ABC needed something provocative, a media event. ibid. observer
Bill Buckley was the first modern conservative intellectual to see that ideological debates were cultural debates, and what he did was to put conservatism on the march: and that’s the creation of the movement we have today. ibid. Sam Tanenhaus, Buckley’s biographer
National Review is the most influential magazine of our time. Why? The magazine attached to a movement. ibid.
For Buckley, Vidal was the devil. He represented everything that was going to moral hell, that was degenerative about the country. ibid. Fred Kaplan, Vidal’s biographer
Gore Vidal is a whore of debate when it comes to values of our country and of historical forces. The man is brilliant. And the man is fun to watch. But there is always a residue in my opinion when I watch him of nausea. ibid. Reid Buckley
I knew Buckley would have done no research. ibid. Vidal
They really do despise one another. Each thought the other was quite dangerous. ibid. Hitchens
Debate 2: Tonight the key question for every patriot is can an ageing Hollywood juvenile actor with a right-wing script defeat Richard Nixon, a professional politician, who currently represents no discernible interest except his own. ibid. Vidal
Buckley was his generation’s greatest debater. He knew very well how to make an argument, but he was even better at dismantling your argument. ibid. Sam Tanenhaus
He’s always to the right I think and almost always in the wrong. And you certainly must, Bill, maintain your reputation as being the Marie Antoinette of the right wing, and continually imposing your own rather bloodthirsty neuroses on the political campaign. ibid. Vidal
A philosophy and an economy of stagnation but also a spiritual world of stagnation. ibid. Buckley of Vidal
It’s very hard to stand up carrying the weight of what I know. ibid. Buckley’s response to panel question about thinking on your feet
Freedom breeds inequality … Unless you have freedom to be unequal, there is no such thing as freedom. ibid. Buckley to Vidal
In the interval between Miami and Chicago I read Myra Breckinridge [Gore Vidal]. It attempts heuristic allegory but fails, giving gratification only to sadist homosexuals and challenge only to taxonomists of perversion. I thought and thought about it. There is nothing left to say about Myra. ibid. Bill Buckley
Gore Vidal was correct in prophesying that we would become an empire. That is our present dilemma. ibid. Reid Buckley
These ad hominem attacks were not at all characteristic of Bill. ibid. Linda Bridges, Buckley’s personal assistant
Buckley couldn’t let it go. ibid. Tanenhaus
On Experiencing Gore Vidal: Can there be any justification in calling a man a queer before ten million people on television? ibid. Bill Buckley, essay Esquire magazine
Distasteful Encounter with William F Buckley Jr: Can there be any justification in calling a man a pro crypto-Nazi before ten million people on television? ibid. Gore Vidal, essay Esquire magazine
One of the longest lawsuits between two American public intellectuals that has ever been. ibid. Hitchens
If I had a pill which would reduce my age by twenty-five years I wouldn’t take it. Because I’m tired of life. ibid. Buckley, television interview
The furore over the Napster/Metallica war boosted Napster’s popularity even more. Its user base was exploding. Download: The True Story of the Internet series, Science 2008
In the decade after World War II the USA and the USSR are locked in a battle for global supremacy. It’s a bitter fight between two rival ideologies: capitalism and communism that stretches from Berlin to Havana and beyond. Cold War Armageddon s1e3, Discovery 2016
By February, Castro is sworn in as prime minister of Cuba … less than 90 miles from the USA. ibid.
Sputnik … strikes dread into the West … The space race between East and West has started. ibid.
The Cold War in Berlin is a story of families forced apart. ibid.