Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rapid growth in the use of computers and computer networks creates a dangerous tension between an individual's right to privacy and the public's right to access information, according to five participants in a panel discussion at the Law School yesterday...
Paragraphs 2-5: Background information about Cliffs Notes, Inc. builds tension while raising important issues such as cheating and slacking...
Paragraph 11-13: Tension continues to build as Harvard senior confronts Cliffs Notes as a worthy study...
...promising, if not extraordinary, story line, and might have lent itself to lots of exciting intrigue and seduction a la "Dangerous Liaisons." Martin is trying hard to make a respectable and literary film, but the result is too plodding to sustain any dramatic tension. The denouement is obvious from the first scenes, when Newland sees the Countess at the opera. The Countess reminds Newland that as a child he had tried to kiss her behind a door: more kisses to come, one understands. Then at the post-opera ball Newland hurries to announce his engagement...
...well, as well as Joe Perry plays guitar. After rousing the crowd to a fever pitch, Aerosmith proceeded to lull them with their rock ballad, "Dream On." Then they returned with the haunting "Janie's Got a Gun" and some of their harder numbers--only to break the mounting tension again by suddenly breaking into the theme from Peter Gunn. When Steve Tyler jokingly asked if everyone knew how it felt to be "Livin' on the Edge," and then began the best and last number of the show, the crowd went wild...