Word: tension
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...early September, citing its unpalatable anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli rhetoric. After Sept. 11, the U.N.’s thinly-veiled America-bashing was slightly mollified. Yet in recent months, particularly with the escalation of Israeli-Palestinian hostilities in the Middle East, the U.S.-U.N tension has surfaced once again...
...playing messenger Samuel Prescott rode up to the green to deliver the message that the British were, indeed, coming. Soon after, about 120 reenactors portraying British regulars marched up the road and confronted the Minute Men holding the green. The redcoats were booed by the umbrella-toting crowd. Tension rose among the crowd and reenactors as the British gave an order for the Minute Men to withdraw. They did not move. The British advanced. And then a shot was fired. Volleys of fire criss-crossed the green and the Minute Men fled with British in pursuit. When the heavy amount...
...than it is; in small quantities, Botox merely interrupts nerve impulses to muscles in the face. The lines that furrow the forehead when you raise your eyebrows, the crow's feet that appear when you squint and the creases between the eyebrows when you frown are all caused by tension in underlying muscles, which contract and squeeze the skin like an accordion. Botox keeps this from happening...
...many scenes read as flat, and instances of explosion feel forced. Because the proper work of subtle tension-building is not done in the first act, the string of different officers’ testimony in the second act appears more like courtroom formality than courtroom drama...
...says Alan Bair, president of Pacific Yurts, a leading manufacturer of prefab yurts. Bair built his first yurt 25 years ago after spotting one in the pages of National Geographic. Over time he improved on tradition with seven-ply reflective insulation, architectural-quality vinyl-laminated fabrics and aircraft-quality tension cables to produce a warm, draft-free, ultra-stable modern superyurt. He now employs more than 20 people full-time supplying yurts to ski resorts, national parks, military bases and thousands of private yurt enthusiasts all over the world, who use them for anything from a stylish toolshed...