Word: tensioning
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...months passed, the tension slowly dropped off as the Ivy Group failed to extricate itself from the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC), strongly in favor of the NCAA’s blackout plan, by continuing to use the league’s officials and remaining within the league’s governing infrastructure...
...Beyonce's Crazy In Love better than Hamlet? Hamlet is long on intrigue and tension. It's also just long. Crazy in Love delivers its emotional punch in 3 min. 44 sec. Admittedly, it doesn't have much to say beyond: I'm crazy! I'm in love! But aren't those the chief sentiments of a certain indecisive prince? Shakespeare will probably outlast Beyonce, but that's hardly the point. For the next 50 years, millions of people will hear the fanfare at the top of Crazy in Love and instantly recall the summer of 2003. A simple...
...days. We?ve heard about projects and efforts around the country that are inspiring and give one hope in the face of this enormous epidemic of obesity. But we?ve also seen differences of opinion and outlook that at times filled this auditorium with a palpable sense of tension - and frustration...
...summing up what we?ve learned and what lessons we might take home, I?d like to begin with what we all seem to agree on. That?s the easy part. Next, I?d like to highlight the areas of disagreement and tension, and finally, I will offer a summary of what struck me as the best, actionable ideas we?ve heard during these three, information-packed days...
Perhaps the best example of the tension between commerce and decency was a new ABC drama titled Doing It. Based on a British novel, it aims to be My So-Called Life for teenage guys, who, of course, think about sex roughly once a breath. Executive producer Stu Bloomberg describes the show as "life through the prism of hormones." ABC bought the series but out of post-Janet anxiousness changed the title to Life As We Know It--which may deter the decency cops but also sounds like something that would run on Lifetime...