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...savored by the viewers, not chewed by the actors. Much of the action in a western is in what would be downtime in any other genre. The pause before a man speaks suggests the world of options available to someone facing an armed varmint in a desolate space. The tensest scene in any western - two men staring each other down before the final shoot-out - is, in modern movie terms, a moment when nothing happens...
...White House—against John McCain. To be sure, it would be naïve to expect a primary of this magnitude to remain focused exclusively on policy issues. Considering how little actually separates Clinton and Obama, a campaign of this duration and expense will, in the tensest moments, necessarily involve some level of negative campaigning. Such is simply the case in modern American politics, and we recognize that. Nonetheless, whatever immediate advantages one Democrat derives from negative campaigning against the other, they are nothing compared with the resulting fallout the party faces in the general election...
...corner of Sixth and Locust is probably the tensest spot in downtown Des Moines. And the frostiness has little to do with the subfreezing Midwestern winter and everything to do with presidential politics. For housed alongside each other on the bottom floor of a 73-year-old office building at 405 Sixth Avenue - and sharing the bathrooms in the basement- are the Iowa headquarters of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Texas Congressman Ron Paul...
...fact, even at the tensest moments––and there is an abundance of these, since scenes of defensive and angry arguing dominate the play––the actors’ fun rapport remains discernable. All agreed with Spillman’s diagnosis: “the whole dynamic’s just been really good,” she said...
...same time, when it came down to the tensest moment of the weekend—overtime yesterday—it was one of the best players on the ice who stepped...