Word: tensioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...emotional storyline—compounded by the fact that this is a dramatization, not a documentary—makes exaggeration not only unnecessary, but also detrimental to the film’s power. A frantic escape scene featuring Yong-soo is filmed in slow motion, presumably to increase the tension and drama of the moment. It comes across as overdone and totally lacking in suspense. The film also employs its fair share of flashback-driven montages, a superfluous technique that does nothing to advance the story. Attempts at symbolism in the movie are also heavy-handed. The rain, for instance...
...early 1990s may have trickled down from the spirited and sometimes vitriolic debates held during classes, as professors from both ends of the political spectrum flaunted their ideological differences.While many students saw the heated discussions as “amusing” incidents, others felt that they created unnecessary tension and divisiveness outside the classroom. Students who held unpopular views sometimes found themselves the target of personal attacks.“Students were hissing at unpopular political views and really hot political issues,” Steiker says. “The political dysfunction slopped over into student life...
...pictures of political high tension in Zimbabwe...
...like ‘Why you?’.... I’m not that girl. I’m the girl next door, not the sex symbol.” Gallo guesses her “good girl” appearance and personality on screen creates an interesting tension between expectation and reality. And her sweet-looking, gross/kinky-girl casting has followed her. But exposing it all turned out to be less difficult during “Californication,” leading Gallo to think, “Oh my god, I have lost my mind because I am totally...
...agree to help dissuade the Iranians from an illegal nuclear program (in return for a U.S. pledge to halt the antimissile defense system that Russia fears). Every decision will be evaluated for its synergy with other decisions: troop levels in Afghanistan will reflect, among other things, the level of tension between India and Pakistan...