Word: tensions
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...devastatingly witty. While Hugh Grant does his best to manipulate the high jinks and high verbiage of this movie, his performance does not come anywhere near the stature of those of Cary Grant because his Charles has no Hepburn like counterpart with whom to share repartee and amorous tension. Without these basic ingredients, all the spice and sprinkle in the world cannot prevent this film from falling oddly flat...
This disconcerting tension about its conceptual intent is reinforced, for example, at the conclusion of the play, when the "statue of recondiliation," traditionally a statue of a beautiful woman, appears as a grotesque caricature of a pregnant woman. Also, the translation's inclusions of such modern-day refrences as Hamlet's "something's rotten in the state of Athens?" heightens the sense that the production features a significant internal critique...
Thus appearing simultaneously to celebrate and parody Aristophanes' world, this production is unclear in its message. This confusion of purpose confines the production to a bawdy exultation of rut, making it lack dramatic, or even comedic tension. Two demensional characterization and widespread overacting renders the interpersonal relationships and the various plot-twists uninteresting...
...have always enjoyed the mentoring role," she says. "I make a conscious effort to be especially helpful to students, but I have to balance that with the need to get my own work done. If there is a tension in my life it's because I have always tended to spend a lot of time with students, and I realize that I need to balance that with my right to do my work...
...things I can say with absolute confidence: One, the reasons for the spectacular fall of companies like IBM are complex and involve strategic decisions by top people in government and industry. And two, layoffs, cutbacks and economic insecurity strongly correlate with soaring crime, wife-battering, substance abuse and "ethnic" tension...