Word: tensioning
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...special tour of his home country, organized by the communist government. He met farmers and fishermen, visited the new Volkswagen factory in Shanghai and realized for the first time how rapidly China was changing under the economy's new market reforms. "There was a tremendous amount of tension in China," Zhu says. "There was a lot of dislocation, but people weren't seeing the benefits...
...combining personal narrative and a backdrop of political tension, Kaabour’s film could be seen as a public service announcement against intolerance as well as a slice of life cinematographic exploration of character. While Osama El-Demerdash, eager and willing to leave Canada, visibly shakes with frustration at pending arrest charges for a political demonstration, fellow Egyptian Osama El-Naggar plays poker with friends in a local hookah bar and thinks of French as his first language...
...There's a myth out there that you have to be totally compatible (with your ex-spouse) to have shared parenting," Cairns says. There's always a hint of tension, "but you've got to bypass that, give yourself a reality check and say, 'No, you don't argue in front of the children, you don't behave bitterly, you don't try to make it more difficult for the other parent.' Look, I couldn't have done it without her. If she wanted to be spiteful, I could have ended up . . . maybe not even seeing (the girls). There...
...album and the videos that attend it show a tension between two forces tugging them in opposite directions—the desire to be witty, ironic, and hip, and the desire to be an awesome rock/hardcore outfit...
...While it was a very long process and there was a tremendous amount of tension, the city and Harvard came together around this agreement,” she says...