Word: tensioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...combining personal narrative and a backdrop of political tension, Kaabour’s film could be seen as a public service announcement against intolerance as well as a slice of life cinematographic exploration of character. While Osama El-Demerdash, eager and willing to leave Canada, visibly shakes with frustration at pending arrest charges for a political demonstration, fellow Egyptian Osama El-Naggar plays poker with friends in a local hookah bar and thinks of French as his first language...
...There's a myth out there that you have to be totally compatible (with your ex-spouse) to have shared parenting," Cairns says. There's always a hint of tension, "but you've got to bypass that, give yourself a reality check and say, 'No, you don't argue in front of the children, you don't behave bitterly, you don't try to make it more difficult for the other parent.' Look, I couldn't have done it without her. If she wanted to be spiteful, I could have ended up . . . maybe not even seeing (the girls). There...
...album and the videos that attend it show a tension between two forces tugging them in opposite directions—the desire to be witty, ironic, and hip, and the desire to be an awesome rock/hardcore outfit...
...addition to tension over Harvard’s expansion, residents complain about the day-to-day problems that arise from living next door to students...
...While it was a very long process and there was a tremendous amount of tension, the city and Harvard came together around this agreement,” she says...