Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shame that the most genuinely tension-fraught encounters in this production are reserved for Blanche and her palid suitor, Mitch (Aaron Zelman). Zelman manages to deepen a character Williams only sketches, and turns the script's love triangle into a sturdy square...
...President Neil L. Rudenstine, acknowledging the tension, told the Faculty "we need ways of talking together that are different from the parliamentary procedures of this meeting...
...then, though, the decision was shifting out of his hands. In Washington the Administration had been wracked by tension: spats between Kissinger and Schlesinger, frustration over conflicting reports about just how bad the situation in Saigon was. Ford had suffered an unprecedented insult a few days earlier when two Congressmen walked out of a joint session at which he pleaded for unity. Late in the afternoon of April 28 (early morning of the 29th in Saigon), Kissinger's deputy Brent Scowcroft burst into a meeting of Ford with his energy and economic advisers, bearing a message about the rocket...
Nauman doesn't think art has much to do with pleasure. Just about everything that could turn you off is catnip to him: aggro, solipsism, tension, repetition, torpor and bad jokes that may have come out of a misanthrope's fortune cookie. Boredom too. Try watching a fuzzy tape of Nauman overstretching a simple phallic pun by very slowly "manipulating" a long fluorescent tube. You don't so much enjoy this show as endure it; you get through it. Then, in the coffee shop, you peruse the catalog and find such hyperbolic drivel as this, by co-curator Kathy Halbreich...
Testimony in the O. J. Simpson case resumed after a day's hiatus during which Judge Lance Ito interviewedjurorsabout allegations of racial tension on the jury. The results of the interviews were not released. First on the stand for the prosecution today was evidence technician Andrea Mazzola, the assistant to criminalist Dennis Fung. Mazzolacollected most of the blood evidencein the Simpson case, and the defense is expected to question her lack of experience. In her testimony Mazzola denied a defense allegation that she contaminated blood samples by handling them without gloves, saying that criminalists always wear gloves for fear...