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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...detailed the relative calm on campus that followed the tide of radicalism of the preceding years. The year 1970 was one of "tension, turmoil, introspection and questioning," the article read. The student population was silent, brooding--and still angry...

Author: By Victor Chen, | Title: Class of 1970 Couldn't Escape National Campus Turmoil | 6/6/1995 | See Source »

...Eastwood defines his task: "I feel the director's job, besides picking a script, is casting the right people. But then after that, the real responsibility is to make those people feel at home. Set an atmosphere where everybody is extremely relaxed and there's no tension. Coming from acting, you know what rattles people, what rattles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COWBOY AND THE LADY | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...tries on a southern Italian accent, with the weary, knowing lilt of an Anna Magnani. Soon she is Francesca -- or some rarefied version of her -- aching but not expecting to find someone who can tap her gift for love. Before she commits to the affair, you understand her tension, her indecision. In a medley of bold and subtle gestures, Streep tells Francesca's plaintive story. Through the actress's effort and her director's generosity, this book about an irresistible man becomes a movie about a remarkable woman. Madison County is Eastwood's gift to women: to Francesca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHEN EROTIC HEAT TURNS INTO LOVE LIGHT | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...terribly sorry that some people were flustered; it was a high-tension situation," Davis said. "But I don't know what I otherwise could have done. It would not have been fair to leave the excess pages out there...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: Professor, Students Clash on Exam Aids | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

...They didn't have the history of the wholeracial tension that went on in America," Tai says...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Multiracial Students: Searching for a Voice | 5/19/1995 | See Source »

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