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...habits. "Eating is not evil," says Martin Binks, director of health psychology for the Duke Diet and Fitness Center. "Sometimes eating a small amount of food is a useful coping mechanism." But if you can't stop with just one cookie, try to find other ways to relieve the tension, like taking a walk, jumping into the shower or simply breathing deeply for a few minutes...
...ladies such Deliverance-subtle tasks as picking up roadkill and buying pigs' feet. (The brand on the jar, inexplicably, is blurred out. When is a pigs'-feet maker ever going to get a product placement again?) There's the genius of The Simple Life: it plays with the tension between rich and poor using such extreme examples that the audience can feel superior to both...
...Miss America pageant is the type of event where middle-aged women in prom dresses line up to buy cheese fries. The tension and excitement in the air are palpable, since most people attending are directly connected to a contestant. Only the top 15 will enjoy anything but ensemble status, so ultimately the friends and families of 36 contestants might travel thousands of miles only to have their girl get cut in the first round...
...about how to use personal weapons to fend off attacks,” Cooper says. “We know we can’t create the fear of a real life situation. We suggest they try to imagine this is real. It’s nowhere near the tension if you’re fighting for your life. You fight differently under fear...
...This was around the time he was recording Ballads of the True West, and I think he saw visions of himself as an outlaw, with a noose around his neck. He re-created this in his own persona. Against the other side of him it created this huge dramatic tension." Inside Cash, the churchman and the outlaw were having a brawl...