Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forbid, engage in any sexual activity under pressure or under the influence of alcohol is terrible. It is not a good idea. So, my advice to the students at Harvard, where I have been, where you work very hard is, number one, if you feel sexual tension, to, I don't want to say masturbate, but I would just say take care of themselves. Then everybody will know what I mean. To use the college years to become sexually literate by, for example, reading Sex for Dummies and this way preparing to be fantastic lovers for the rest of their...
...acknowledged there was a tension between his upbeat songs and his assessment of the world's problems...
Teachers, like parents, have always faced the tension between roots and wings: how to keep kids safe and grounded; how to let them stretch and fly. But after so many shocking headlines, the adults are edgy and tempted to try to stamp out teenage rebellion and cruelty and popularity contests altogether. At a Webster pep rally, for the first time, individual team members are no longer introduced by name--to keep the cheering and booing from getting personal. Cheerleaders are picked by a panel of outside professionals, the football team rotates its captains so no one is favored, and anyone...
Listen closely, though, and you can hear undercurrents of tension: black kids complaining about being misunderstood by white teachers and singled out as troublemakers; black parents worrying that their children are held to lower academic standards; white teachers whispering about undisciplined, unmotivated black students...
...film. Still, Lynch sticks to his tried and true methods in The Straight Story. Again, Lynch collaborates with composer Angelo Baladamenti to create a score that is hauntingly reminiscent of earlier works. (One can't help but wonder if this was an intentional manipulation for the sake of tension--a tension based more on the memory of Lynch's previous works than anything that actually happens in The Straight Story...