Word: tensioning
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...upheaval than it has been for at least a quarter-century. The number of people arrested without charges, most of them black, approached 1,500 last week, though about 700 have since been released. The death toll since the emergency was declared on July 20 is close to 100. Tension has been steadily increasing, even in areas not covered by the emergency regulations. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace laureate who has emerged as the leading voice of moderate black protest, conducted a mass funeral in Daveyton township and then personally averted an open clash between security forces...
There was a steely politeness that heightened the tension. A service had already been held for Egnes Mbongani, but would the crowd of several hundred gathered for the funeral of Elizabeth Khumalo insist on marching from the tent to the cemetery only a few blocks away? In the largest display of force since the emergency began, police and army units were on hand to prevent any such move. But the mood of the crowd was to march...
...know what's great about today," I said to Jane, "Everyone here's a Sox fan. The playoffs, regular-season games, all these Yankee fans come. There are fights, there's tension. But there's no way a Yankee fan would want to watch this. Everyone in the park is a Sox fan." I mused to that, no matter how big this Red Sox thing got, the team still did belong to us-the folks here in Fenway and our grandmothers watching on NESN in Bootbay Harbor, Keene, Cheshire, Storrs, Woonsocket, Chelmsford and everywhere else...
...claustrophobic and intrusive presence of the camera adds a definite tension to the narrative, but this is a film which hangs squarely on its fantastic lead characters. Refusing to play into flimsy stereotypes, both boys’ performances are perfectly eerie: by turns charming and chilling. While the conclusion draws away, both in its narrative and its style, from their perspective (showing the massacre itself through the school’s security cameras) the two remain the beating, bleeding heart of “Zero...
After the first half, what little sense or tension the movie has falls apart, and it becomes a game of spot-the-cliché. For a film that proclaims in a title card at the start that it is “Based On the True Story,” it is remarkably derivative. Especially as the real George Lutz, who probably made up the story to begin with, is calling the remake “drivel that is pure sophistry,” this is perhaps to be expected...