Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Negotiations at Nowa Huta had seemed near agreement at midweek, when factory managers broke off talks. Next day the managers and the leaders of the official union met in an apparent effort to divide the strikers. As tension mounted, authorities threatened to fire strikers and hinted that riot police might break up the protest. Several dozen Solidarity activists and sympathizers were detained, including Jacek Kuron, a senior Solidarity adviser. On Saturday, the government announced an accord with the trade union, but the strike continued...
Aladar Marberger's Manhattan apartment is a gallery of joy and pain, limned in oil, tempera, charcoal and fresco. In most of the likenesses, an insouciant, vibrant personality shines through, but in a few there is the kind of tension that results from great suffering. These are the portraits of an AIDS survivor, sketched and painted by Marberger's friends since it was confirmed , that he had the disease. They are a tribute to a man who will not quit. When Marberger learned in 1985 that he had Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare form of skin cancer that is sometimes...
Eric Dandridge does a good job in the role of Davenport, but there is room for improvement. In the scenes where Davenport faces Captain Taylor, a white officer, there are definite traces of racial tension as Taylor comes to grips with the Black man who is his equal. Although Dandridge plays Davenport as witty and almost stern, at times during these conflicts with Taylor he misses the mark by not giving Davenport the attitude of a fighter. Dandridge also does not succeed in strongly portraying the anguish Davenport must experience as he struggles to maintain the dignity of his stripes...
Once again, in unison, all three Democrats unveiled new antidrug commercials last week for New York. Jackson's is the most riveting. Directed by hip, pixieish Filmmaker Spike Lee (She's Gotta Have It, School Daze), the stark, grainy, black-and-white commercial creates a feeling of tension and intensity. A stern image of Jackson shifts from 140th Street in Harlem to a placid suburban street in Tarrytown to suggest that drugs are "killing our children" in both neighborhoods...
WORLD: Murder, religious zealotry and regional tension meet in a jumbo...