Word: tensioning
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...about just playing up the overdone behavior that we are told should exist between gay guys and a girl. Our room always seemed terribly honest, because we created an environment that was infused with comfort. There is a certain dynamic between girls and guys that lacks sexual tension that seems to be somehow more soothing than the typical interactions that transpire between roommates of the normal order. We talked openly like many roommates do, but at the same time, underlying it all, there was an element of innocent physical contact. Toby would always hold me between his chiseled arms when...
Harvard qualified for the Grand Final after winning its preliminary heat on Friday, beating runner-up Georgetown by two and a half seconds. The boats had to restart the heat after Penn suffered mechanical difficulty, but the false start may have served to ease tension for the Crimson rowers...
...howls. The Danny Tenaglia Walked Across the Lake Mix cleverly elongates her abstract vocal--"I gave you my knife, you gave me my life/Like a gush of wind in my hair"--until Ono sounds every bit like the grieving widow she is. The Pet Shop Boys' Radio Mix builds tension around a pop rhythm so magnificently that there's nothing--save the perversity of corporate radio--to keep it from becoming a crossover...
Baseball is often held up as a microcosm of or a metaphor for America, and it's rarely true--but in 1978, in the Bronx, it was. A turbulent country was reflected in the tempestuous Yankees locker room, where racial tension crackled, where women sportswriters were allowed for the first time and where the first wave of baseball's free agents--led by two Yankees hurlers, Catfish Hunter, the son of a North Carolina sharecropper, and Andy Messersmith--were pulling down astronomical salaries. At the center of the maelstrom, stirring it for all he was worth, was manager Billy Martin...
...Krakatoa, Winchester has found not only a rich subject but also an able collaborator. This is an island that knew how to build tension. European spice traders fought over the Indonesian archipelago for centuries. The Dutch (mostly) came out on top, and the islands' riches gave rise to the world's first joint-stock company and the world's first corporate logo. Winchester deftly evokes the sleepy rhythms of 19th century colonial life--the hotel bars, the town gossip, a runaway elephant--which go on even as volcanic tremors begin knocking plates off tables, shrouding ships in ash and making...