Word: tensioning
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...consequence, you’ve probably noticed that the movie title is blazoned in every shop, on each cup and coaster, and some cases even accompanied by special edition Scrabble sets. Recent cinema set in Los Angeles has primarily focused on gangsta rap, crunk dancing, or racial tension. “Akeelah and the Bee” presents scholarly achievement as a viable alternative to the unfortunate stereotypes about black families.However, peripheral characters, such as Akeelah’s father, who is deceased, her brother, who is the protégé of an aspiring rapper, and her mother (Angela...
...scrambling, muttering) Richard: “...uh...your bed chamber.” But Professor Blair G. Hoxby showed up these slackers by having all his lines from “Much Ado About Nothing” down pat. FM gives him extra props for creating some serious sexual tension with his female TF, who repeatedly groped him throughout their scene. Professor W. James Simpson was the one doing the violating in his scene, where he showed off his dramatic flair by adding in some improvised ass-grabbings of his TF while they performed a scene from...
Setting house rules early on can stave off sexual tension and feelings of being used. Ken Mackay, 29, a New Yorker who has had a dozen people (mostly women) live in his two-bedroom Harlem apartment in exchange for help with his dog-training business, used to ask his roommates to "find some time" to help out, but he now requires them to dedicate three hours each weekday to those chores. Similarly, Gerry Freitas, an athletic recruiter based in San Jose, Calif., enjoyed a collegial relationship with his housemate but asked her to leave after she started slacking...
...unfortunate precedent, being for the first time, to our knowledge, that a country with a fully functioning and credible asylum system, in the absence of anything approximating a mass influx, decides to transfer elsewhere the responsibility to handle claims made actually on the territory of the state." Coming amid tension with Indonesia over the granting of three-year visas to a group of independence activists from West Papua province, the policy shift has brought accusations of appeasement. But it's also raised questions about Australia's commitment to the U.N.'s 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees...
...Bush, Hu smile, pledge cooperation, but make little progress,” read the apt Associated Press headline describing Hu Jintao’s visit to the U.S. last week. Indeed, behind the speeches, photo-ops, pomp, pageantry, and protesters was a fundamental tension and conflict on a variety of issues including human rights, North Korea, and, of course, the elephant in the room: Chinese trade policy. But despite our disagreements, it is important to remember that economic protectionism is not the answer. As more and more items say “made in China” on them...