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Only the Wall Street Journal gives much high exposure to strike pessimism: its front-page news digest UPS item, after noting the progress, adds that "both sides indicated they are prepared to escalate the conflict if a deal isn't reached soon."
More to the point, Mamet can have himself a whale of a time directing a series of civilized confrontations that escalate in importance--from the young man who asks Winslow senior for his daughter's hand in marriage (and the precise amount of her dowry) to a cunning barrister, Sir Robert Morton (Jeremy Northam), who uses every rhetorical trick he can think of to wear down a Parliament weary of a twopenny schoolboy scandal.
Because it's ultimately self-doubt that really matters, no place can really be safe--hence the need to escalate the jokes.
Nickles called NATO's prewar peace proposal to the Serbs "a very arrogant agreement" that "really caused this thing to escalate."
Among the Yanomamo of South America, women watch the one-on-one "club fights" that sometimes escalate into intervillage conflicts, screaming insults and egging their men on.