Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Schreiber spoke of a similar tension in his Southwest region meeting...
...round table at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s. Yet Rudolph remains of two minds about his subjects. He wants them to charm us, but he also wants to show how their infinite distractability stunted their lives and careers. His ambivalence creates not an intriguing thematic tension but merely confusion...
...play-acting? (Well, we know the actresses are, but are they playing characters exaggerating themselves?) The film's conclusion makes it obvious that they're not pretending, but even before that, we believe in them. Their energy is a curious mixture of childlike hyperactivity and a more adult sexual tension. They may begin a game of chasing each other through the forest and end lying in the grass, embracing each other in their knickers. Similarly, their beloved clay figurines, characters in Juliet's novel-in-progress about a royal family, have love affairs and illegitimate children...
...course of action I have outlined will not be satisfactory to many members of our community," Rudenstine said in the report. "My own judgment is that the course of action described above offers the best alternative under existing circumstances, even though it does not claim to resolve the tension between the different values at stake...
...doesn't leave issues open and stirring tension," Pratt Public Service Professor Lewis M. Branscomb said last spring. "He's just awfully good at providing a steady leadership...