Word: tensioning
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Over the past several years, China has ramped up its textile production and reduced prices (igniting trade tension with the U.S.). Many of the cashmere garments, however, are not made wholly of the downy undercoat of the goat, where the fibers are long and fine. Occasionally these fibers get mixed with hairs from the outer layer, which are short and thick. This translates into less expensive sweaters, but also ones that are coarse and scratchy. They don't drape as sinuously or maintain their shape as well, and they don't provide the lifetime commitment most people seek from their...
...Mansfield, there’s not enough “courting, tension and excitement” between the sexes. While Mansfield chastely calls for “yearning,” members of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) are rallying for fairness. In a new poster campaign premiering next semester, CASV argues that “yearning” and “excitement” go hand in hand with the kind of informal interactions so frequent these days—especially when these interactions involve consent. One tentative slogan, “Consent is Sexy?...
Inspired by his luscious, repressed female host—you could cut the sexual tension with an intricately engraved sword—Algren takes up arms against his former employers, the easily manipulated emperor and his evil American advisers. The only problem, from a narrative standpoint, is that the audience has no idea why it should oppose the Western-leaning Japanese ruler or root for the samurai, who are themselves highly militaristic and weaponry-obsessed. The only discernible difference between the two parties is the crude machine guns used by the modernizers and the bows and arrows of the traditionalists...
What is not so good is the loss of romance. Less formality means less romance—less courting, less tension, less excitement. Relations between women and men are rather unerotic. The hormones are there; so too the attractions of youthful bodies and the permission to experiment. The result is lots of sex (or so I hear): recreational sex, loveless sex, hook-ups. There is more consummation and less yearning...
...particular, learning about the constant tension between self and community described in Jewish texts has spoken to Saito. “It helps mediate my Asian-Western dichotomy, the individual-centered Western thought versus the idea in Asian thought that you act because it is your part to play in the community,” Saito says. He is given to waxing metaphysical, particularly since his conversion led him to read a wide variety of philosophical texts...