Word: tension
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Sociologists adopt a basic model of religious conversion that aligns fairly closely with Maskiell’s story: experiencing tension or stress, encountering a religion at a turning point and, once converted, reconstructing perception of one’s experience according to the adopted world view. But for most converts at Harvard, the path was slightly less dramatic...
...rather than producing mounting degrees of tension, each new addition from the bin of recycled cinematic conventions actually results in an air of familiarity, encouraging the audience to sit back and relax in their chairs, not jump out of them. After all, how frightened can one be by a trio of criminals who break into an unexpectedly occupied house after miscalculating the number of days a property is held in escrow before being sold? Even later, when the criminals begin to posture and threaten and wield their guns, their continued bumbling behavior makes them less frightening than the price...
...show offers a thorough look at both refined artistic successes and examples of a more casual working out of visual problems on paper. The pieces displayed are best characterized by an inherent tension. They vibrate with energy and visual force as they reveal the artist’s struggles to eliminate boundaries between drawing and painting, while probing figurative elements for their fundamental abstract forms. They read as transparent entries in the diary of the mind: betraying clearly on the surface the profound influences of artists such as Picasso and Gorky on de Kooning’s development...
Members of the panel discussed how best to move forward from the current situation—which they described as a stalement with a divided peninsula, persistent tension, and the potential for escalation...
...national anthem before Pedro Martinez throws the first pitch of the 2002 Boston Red Sox season. In most years, the anthem would be an afterthought, a brief formality preceding each of the season’s 162 games. But last year, when baseball resumed after Sept. 11, the tension in the air during the anthem was palpable. Especially during the World Series, as military action had begun in Afghanistan, Francis Scott Key’s dramatic lyrics had renewed significance for generations of Americans...