There is a real generational struggle in art history now, and it can be ugly.
How this generational struggle plays itself out will determine the future of the war-shattered country.
In content, the films, made or released between 1986 and 1988, reflect some of the struggles - environmental, national, generational - now besetting Soviet society.
"We're involved," she told the Foreign Relations Committee, "in a generational and global struggle of ideas."
So the talk of a new emphasis on children and young families has inevitably raised questions of a generational struggle for Federal money.
"There is always a generational struggle," Mr. Laguerre said.
It is, however, a long, generational struggle in which we find ourselves.
We're in an analogous situation: we're at the beginning of another generational struggle.
The war on terror we fight today is a generational struggle that will continue long after you and I have turned our duties over to others.
"This was not a generational struggle," he said.