Word: tensioning
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...women from men on sociological grounds—in order to suggest, as Franklin does, that if only the cultural atmosphere were fluffier, women would do better. Julia H. Fawcett ’04 writes, “Something happens when a group of women get [sic] together: the tension of competition suddenly falls away, and we begin to relate to each other...
...munch olives and dig into our slightly wilted salads, struggling to make small talk with the other couples as the tension mounts. Mama Marinara and the rest of the cast circulate the room, energetically chatting with the audience and using eyeliner to draw unibrows, goatees, and eyeglasses on the most unsuspecting spectators. “Fusilli the Enforcer,” Don Carbonara’s bodyguard, serenades us with “Amore” and other North End favorites on his accordion. Then, in the midst of enjoying our cheese ravioli, the lights dim and the star-crossed...
...also on issues raised by Administration officials like John McLaughlin, a career CIA officer and deputy to director George Tenet. According to a staff report, McLaughlin told the commission in private that amid a major spike in terrorist-threat intelligence in the summer of 2001, he "felt a great tension--especially in June and July 2001--between the new Administration's need to understand these [terrorist] issues and his sense that this was a matter of great urgency." The panelists are expected to ask whether threat warnings during 2001 were treated as seriously as those delivered to the Clinton Administration...
Just by arriving at a middle ground between “funk” and “meaning,” Luomo creates a limbo between the two which hadn’t really existed before in club music. Perhaps that tension is what makes his tracks so strangely alluring to both critics and fans. Delay is exuberant about the prevalence of vocals in his music, pointing out that they’re an easy way of making tracks more “human and soulful sounding...
...Either way, violence and tension looks set to escalate in the weeks and months ahead, raising doubts over the viability of the June 30 hand-over date. The ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Richard Lugar and Democrat Joe Biden called on Sunday for a new debate over whether the U.S. can afford to hand over authority on June 30 and risk, as they put it, Iraq descending into civil war. That may not be a debate the Bush administration had hoped to be having a mere four months before the U.S. presidential election...