Word: tensioning
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...semi-abstract: a screen door, segments of wire fence, a window floating in the night sky. Secondary characters linger offstage in full view of the audience, or gather to listen at key moments, forming an accusatory Greek chorus. Video projections and ominous, movielike underscoring help solidify the enveloping tension and sense of doom...
...Every Bond movie needs two Bond girls. One is a British operative (Gemma Arterton) named Miss Fields - in the credits she's ID'd as Strawberry Fields - and her job is to relieve Bond's sexual tension and add to the body count. The other is Camille, who has lost her mother and sister to one of the chief brigands. For Bond, then, she is both a mortal threat and an emotional tonic. Silently sulfurous with vengeance scenarios, she and Bond can purge their demons in the only acceptable action-movie fashion: by killing the men who were in some...
...city of Cambridge has a very unique and rich relationship with the universities, where we do get a good deal of services. But there’s always going to be a healthy tension between the city and the university community...
...America's most polarizing legal battles, including fights over Internet free speech, abortion and the separation between church and state. The ACLU's membership nearly doubled during her tenure, which ended when she stepped down earlier this year. Strossen spoke to TIME about her toughest sparring partners, the tension between national security and civil liberties and why the upcoming election is even more important than people may realize. Your father was a Holocaust survivor, and your organization famously represented Neo-Nazis' right to march in Skokie, Ill. Is it difficult to stomach these types of cases, in which the ACLU...
...should the next Administration and the next Congress manage the tension between security and civil liberties...