Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This film might have been more successful if it built tension and climax by creating conflict out of the relationships of normal people. Because most of the characters are not rational, it is difficult to elicit meaning from their machinations. The net result is that the audience sympathizes with none of the characters, save the late father...
...There's always that tug of war between the press and the establishment," Khlat says. "It's a partnership, but you're always going to get that tension. But now, even if they don't like what we write, they still respect...
...work is cryptic, devoted to nuance and practically impossible to reproduce. No color plate conveys the way those little scribbles and blots can keep the whitish-blond surface of a big Twombly in coherent tension. Since reproduction creates reputation, this put his work at a disadvantage. Besides, Twombly could not have had less to do with the direction American art in the '60s took toward Minimalism and the iconic blare of Pop Art; being an expatriate counted against him in a New York art world saturated with cultural chauvinism. He had sided with the beautiful Italian losers, against history...
...like to make time in the middle of the day to come down here and play Space Lords," said Carsten M. Reichel '98. "It's a good tension reliever...
Memoirs written by a relative or a friend of a celebrity are inherently flawed in that they are written on the pretense that the author's life history is as compelling as the celebrity's. This is usually never the case. An inevitable tension arises in which the author struggles to assert his own identity while at the same time acknowledging the celebrity relation that made his story noteworthy in the first place. Because a memoir writer is more than a celebrity biographer, she has the onerous task of assigning relevance to her own life. If the author...