Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Compound-Q affair has heightened concern about the widespread use of unproven drugs. "There is always a tension between treatment of a patient and the need for solid drug testing," says Dr. Frank Young, the FDA commissioner. But AIDS has increased that tension. Those with the disease have protested for years that the FDA's traditional methods of testing an experimental drug's safety and effectiveness were too slow. "People have lost faith in the system," says Richard Dunne, executive director of Manhattan's Gay Men's Health Crisis...
...tension fairly crackled in the Stockholm courtroom as Lisbet Palme, the widow of assassinated Prime Minister Olof Palme, was asked whether the man she had seen just after the shooting of her husband more than three years ago was present. "Yes," she answered, indicating Christer Pettersson, 42, a confessed drug addict who is charged with murdering Palme. "Are you sure?" asked the prosecutor. After looking briefly at Pettersson, Mrs. Palme answered with a second...
...smell might be to others: "I associate the significant moments of my life with the character of light at the time." In fact, glass came before steel in his work of the early '70s, and some of his most beautiful pieces consist only of glass plate laced together with tension cable -- flat, bent or subtly curved, as in Tina Turner, 1970-71, an astonishing tour de force for a sculptor...
...matter the wood's emotional state, Nakashima's furniture is distinguished by a tension between naturally shaped slabs of wood and meticulously worked support elements. While the base of a dining table may be crisply machined, Nakashima lets the natural "free edge" of the top planks determine the contour of the piece, instead of sawing a geometrical line...
...daunting and lurching; it has trouble deciding which of its antagonists should set the tone. It can be as manic as the Joker, straining to hear the applause of outrage; it can be as implosive as Batman-Bruce, who seems crushed by the burden of his schizoid eminence. This tension nearly exhausts the viewer and the film...