Word: tensioning
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...tell you what is true and what is totally out of control,” he quips on “Foam Hands,” but his mastery of this musical détente proves that he very well could. It’s a remarkable play of tension and one that makes the album both thrilling and frightening.Take, for example, “Rivers.” Bejar holds off until just past the halfway mark, then cuts loose in a crash of screaming, cymbals, piano, and spastic classic rock guitar. Likewise, both “The State?...
...engage in a battle over who really “possesses” Kate, using language and recollections as their weapons of choice.“Old Times” contains many of Pinter’s trademarks as a playwright: uncertainty, an unspoken struggle for verbal control, sexual tension, questions with no answers, and an exploration of the nature of memory. These characteristics make Pinter’s work wonderfully frustrating and absorbing, but at the same time create difficulties for the director, who must clearly convey the central ideas despite an often indiscernible reality.In this case, that burden...
...leader of the power against whose precursor the alliance was originally created. Moreover, Putin will follow the summit by taking its most powerful leader, President George W. Bush, back to his vacation home at the Black Sea resort of Sochi. But the formal bonhomie won't hide the escalating tension in the relationship between Washington and Moscow. President Bush on Tuesday strongly backed NATO membership bids by the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia, a move fiercely opposed by Moscow, which sees it as an effort to extend a geopolitical rival's presence to Russia's southern and southwestern...
Historically, the College has tried to ease the tension by limiting housing options for transfers...
...daughter; their family is Indian, but she married an American. Will the father move in with them? Will he tell his daughter that he has a new lover? Lahiri (who won a Pulitzer for Interpreter of Maladies) gives us nearly 60 pages of precisely narrated time and delicate emotional tension before the story finally gathers its energies for one sharp, perfectly aimed stab of achy sadness and hope. This is the short story as Hemingway practiced it--or Chekhov, for that matter--in all its demanding, reactionary glory...