Word: tension
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...tell?” Glazer asked. “Almost everything depends on whether the very broad achievement gap in standard educational measures between blacks and others can be overcome…There’s a permanent tension...
There are, arguably, more entertaining diversions than watching people eat. But, the producers are quick to point out, Cheers was about watching people drink. Burnett compares the tension between the wait staff and the kitchen drudges to the divide between the first-class swells and the coal shovelers in Titanic, and co--executive producer Ben Silverman, who conceived the show, argues that "restaurants are the new theater." The Restaurant is also the new advertising: it will have product placements worked in even more snugly than Survivor does. DiSpirito runs errands in a Mitsubishi, and only American Express cards and Coors...
...budget soared to $150 million, and the director's painful attention to detail and insistence on retakes drove his cast nuts. (Not for nothing do actors call him Angst Lee.) "It wasn't a set full of conflict," Bana says carefully. "It was a set full of tension. I think Ang boiled over only once, and I boiled over only once." Looking back, he says, making the movie "was satisfying the way running a marathon is satisfying. At the end, the person feels pretty good. But if you ask how he's feeling at the 20th mile, he probably...
...there any Rugrats-Thornberrys tension...
...listening to lots of System of a Down--loud-soft dynamics are all over St. Anger. But no one in music is better at whipping up hurricanes out of thin air than these two, and even though most songs clock in at well over seven minutes, they never lose tension or focus. St. Anger will absolutely rock your head, though it would have been nice if it wanted a piece of your brain too. --By Josh Tyrangiel