Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting crackled with all the tension of a scene from Barbarians at the Gate. Two months before the battle for Paramount Communications lit up Hollywood and Wall Street this fall, Paramount chairman Martin Davis summoned Barry Diller to a lunch at Paramount headquarters in New York City. The two men had rarely spoken since Davis forced out Diller as head of Paramount's film studio a decade ago. Now Davis demanded to know whether Diller's QVC shopping network was planning a takeover bid for Paramount. Diller none-too- ingenuously denied it. According to Diller, Davis then ended the meal...
...first time that didn't happen." The goofing around that usually makes the boredom and hardships of difficult movie locations bearable was not available to this company. "The ghosts were on the set every day in their millions," says Kingsley. As Spielberg recalls, "There was no break in the tension. Nobody felt there was any room for levity," and people were always "breaking down or cracking up." This he had anticipated, he says, "but I didn't expect so much sadness every...
DeZala said economic cooperation is especiallynecessary to battle the tension in the region...
...increase of tension was due primarily to the increase of general armed conflict," DeZala said...
Witness relies heavily on courtroom tension between the defense and the prosecuting attorney. Unfortunately, Michael Wertheim plays the prosecutor more as a petulant child than as a true force with which to be reckoned. Wertheim compromises the credibility and austerity of his character by stumbling through and forgetting many of his lines. As a result, a lot of dialogue exchanged in the courtroom fails in its mission to excite the witnesses and the audience...