Word: tensioning
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...album makes two ultimately doomed plays for creative credibility: the back-to-back combination of “Gotta Be Somebody’s Blues” and “Feeling Lucky.” Not surprisingly, the first squanders the respectable tension built by an eerie string section, creepy vocals, and a disorienting beat. It quickly runs out of steam and reveals itself as a rip-off of Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer” without the grimy, visceral payoff...
...chronologically warped world of music videos. It depicts a night in the life of a woman who, after taking her motionless child from his hospital bed, ends up at a motel—except we see it all in rewind-mode. As we go back in time, the tension should mount. Instead, we’re left with a muddled four minutes of monotony. The woman walks backwards. For like, half a minute. Then she drives away, fills up at a gas station, and stares forlornly at a stack of pancakes while holding the child, who is still unmoving...
...texture and density of novels. For their first official adaptation from a prime American author, they have stayed remarkably faithful to the Cormac McCarthy story, including a detour at the end that will baffle some viewers. But the rest is tough, tangy and thrilling--perfect scenes of rising tension, wily escapes, fatal face-offs. There's one moment (it's just a phone ringing downstairs) that will churn your blood and turn it cold, and plenty other frissons that could make this the biggest hit of the Coens' sly career...
...clicks of reloading guns and rapid firing echoed in the Quincy Dining Hall. Halo 3, the popular Xbox 360 game, flashed from every screen as it captivated the 60 humanoids present. The room was dim, the tension palpable, and the human faces unmoving. Saturday night’s Halo 3 tournament, hosted by the Harvard Interactive Media Group (HIMG) and the Harvard Distribution of Technology (HDot), welcomed novices and seasoned gamers hoping to display their simulated shooting prowess. “I came here because I wanted to see Master Chief ‘pwn’ everybody...
Breaking the tension, he turned to Faust and said: “Let me tell you, as one president to another, that change does not come easily to these hallowed grounds...