Word: tension
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...films very often they get angry and leave in the middle," he says. "When I see one of my films in the conditions in the West, I often find that the film is better than when I see it with an Iranian public, when there is so much tension and dissatisfaction." New York would have been a particularly satisfying venue. It's too bad Kiarostami couldn't get a ticket. Q&A: 'Difficulties give me energy. The best buildings are those on difficult terrain.' TIME: Do you agree that the censorship imposed by the regime has encouraged creativity in Iran...
...with simple, swooshy lines. Arms and legs don't bend so much as curve around. Shading has been minimized in favor of flat gray tones that emphasize blocky shapes on the page. Curiously, until the end little that could be identified as New York appears. Finally, coiled up with tension, Tina gets into her jogging shorts for a cathartic run in the New York subway system...
...would be tediously predictable if the potential implications weren't so terrifying. The worry is that instead of cracking down on domestic extremists who threaten true progress, what Aqil Shah, an Islamabad political analyst and author, calls a "relentless exchange of accusations" will occasion a return to "the heightened tension of a few months ago." And yet that's where these two leaders who now have so much in common seem to be headed...
...That's why, Lewis and others argue, in the New Age bookstores and yoga centers from Berlin to Los Angeles where Barks' and other modernized versions of Rumi have found such an enthusiastic following these days, a certain tension is often missing. Barks' versions, Lewis claims, "teleport the poems of Rumi out of their cultural and Islamic context into the inspirational discourse of non-parochial spirituality." Cut free from the ground of orthodox Islamic belief from which they grew, the Persian poet's lyrical reports from the outer fringes of mystical experience risk becoming mere souvenirs...
...legislator condemned the ongoing tension between Muslims and Hindus in India, which led to recent violence in the state of Gujarat...