Word: tensioning
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...jokes in order to remind the audience of the movie’s irreverence that we’re all about ready to skip the cannoli and go home. Where sexual orientation, ethnic and family issues should be addressed seriously, another joke is made to relieve the tension. The idea of a gay Italian-French-Canadian has a lot of comic potential; in the end, unfortunately, the director is too overwhelmed to stop making jokes and tell what could have been a winning story...
...pass the time, or maybe to break the competitive tension, they fall into the perennial Israeli custom of throwing out names and addresses to find a link. They find some: a barber, a cousin. I don’t take my eyes off the lines and the chief security attendant, except to watch the clock...
...ordinance has met strong opposition from local restaurant owners, who lobbied heavily to stop its passage. The owners charge that the ban will chase away their clientele and cause tension between bar neighbors and smokers banished to the sidewalk...
...ladies such Deliverance-subtle tasks as picking up roadkill and buying pigs' feet. (The brand on the jar, inexplicably, is blurred out. When is a pigs'-feet maker ever going to get a product placement again?) There's the genius of The Simple Life: it plays with the tension between rich and poor using such extreme examples that the audience can feel superior to both...
Even that assertion has become a source of tension on the House Intelligence Committee, which is probing the handling of prewar intelligence on Iraq. At a closed hearing last week, a knowledgeable source tells TIME, Democrat Silvestre Reyes read into the record a secret memo he sent Republican chairman Porter Goss more than a month before the war. Reyes (who, through an aide, declined comment) raised concerns that intelligence agencies may have misled the panel by suddenly touting links between Iraq and al-Qaeda. Reyes told the panel that in closed-door testimony over the previous year, intelligence witnesses, when...