Word: tensioning
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...rest of the band (which includes two sets of brothers) pushed back and forth against one another to achieve an energy and sonic tension that both offset and accentuated the gloom of love and loss, matching the emotional rise and fall beat for beat...
...ferocity that, at times, verged on psychosis. While her yelling quickly became old, she effectively portrayed her character’s inner rage. Alterman’s performance was touching and powerful not because of how loud she could be, but because of the means by which she built tension between Sara and the audience. Alterman effectively revealed Sara’s cursing and screaming as an attempt to cope with her rape by a classmate ten years ago, and led us to understand how a minor character in one of Sara’s anecdotes could call...
...centuries of history about her. The film’s biggest disappointment lies, ironically, in the plot twist that generated the most buzz—the relationship between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh, adventurer and settler of the New World. His first appearances in court are filled with flirtatious tension, mystery, and bravado, and Elizabeth becomes attracted to his otherworldliness to the point of envy. Yet Owen’s character quickly grows two-dimensional. Besides always presenting the same calm and manly front, Raleigh mechanically offers hopelessly banal pieces of advice to Elizabeth, like “We mortals...
...biggest of the question marks that punctuate the album. Thankfully, Krug finds his way back into more familiar waters with “Winged/Wicked Things,” punched up by visceral guitar waves that lap across an ocean of keyboard hum. Krug’s talent for building tension is unquestionable, and the song offers what may be the album’s schizophrenic manifesto: “And chaos is yours / And chaos is mine / And chaos is love and they say love is blind.” Centerpiece “Stallion” clocks...
...about, but one thing is for sure: It won’t make the world a happier, more pleasant, or safer place to live. It is the university’s job to provide substance for thought, not spectacle. Breaking social codes by petty name-calling only creates unnecessary tension between people that hinders compromise. In section we don’t name-call to make a point, and neither should a university president. RICHARD KRONFOL ’08 Cambridge, MA October...