Word: tensioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hordes of government minders immediately surrounded us on the tarmac as we waited for the orchestra's music director, Lorin Maazel, and his musicians to have a group picture taken in front of a beaming mosaic of the Great Leader. The minders, whose forced conviviality didn't hide the tension in their faces, would not leave our side until about 44 hours later, when we got on a flight out of Pyongyang...
...actions that the reader can’t understand. In “The Soul Thief,” the gaze of others constitutes one’s self-conception. The narration and structure reflect the confused identities of each character. From the opening paragraph there is an uneasy tension between third-person and first-person narration. At times we are looking at the world through Nathanial’s eyes; at others we look down on him and his actions from above. Baxter’s strident authorial voice is present throughout “The Soul Thief...
...twist. As Moon, Ferrell plays the owner and team captain of the Tropics, a sub-par American Basketball Association (ABA) team from Flint, MI. When the ABA merges with the NBA, Moon tries to take his team to the big league by shooting for a fourth-place finish. The tension comes down to the season’s final game. “It’s not to win it all, this game is literally for fourth place,” Arnett said. “And they find out that it won’t matter anyway...
...that Huntington's idea "has actually helped provoke the confrontation it predicts ... The clash of civilizations theory is not just intellectually provocative: it fuels xenophobia and paranoia both in the West and in the Islamic world." But once again, she stresses that the ultimate cause of conflict is the tension that lies within Islam itself. It is the "failure to resolve that tension peacefully and rationally" that could "degenerate into a collision course of values spilling into a clash between Islam and the West...
...that has wracked Kenya since President Mwai Kibaki was sworn in for a controversial second term two months ago. More than 1,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands more uprooted, forced to return to their tribal homelands as waves of political violence brought decades of ethnic tension into the open...