Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dancehall has a real excitement and tension to it," says Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records, who signed Bob Marley to the label in 1972. Says Tiger, whose dancehall album, Claws of the Cat, was just released: "It's not just the roots and Rastafarian thing anymore...
Despite his kids-in-the-hall casualness around the office, Letterman is a fiercely driven perfectionist who controls virtually every detail of his show. "There's more tension than any place I've ever worked," says an ex- staffer. Letterman rejects reams of material submitted by his team of a dozen writers, and he crosses off potential guests by the score. "We'd hand in a list of 50 guests, and he'd say no to 48," says a frustrated former booker. He is also notoriously moody and has last-minute pangs of self-doubt. "In the makeup room five...
When the alliance council met in Brussels last week to debate the U.S. proposal, tension built quickly. Washington's plan to issue an ultimatum to the Bosnian Serbs was rejected. So was the suggestion that the Serbs' headquarters should be a bombing target. The British, French and Canadians, all of whom have troops at risk on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia, staunchly opposed any action other than the most limited retaliation for attacks on U.N. forces. Eventually the allies cobbled together a compromise committing the alliance to prepare air strikes but not specifying when or how to undertake them. They left...
...which David Janssen, as the luckless Kimble, was pursued across many years and many states by Barry Morse's implacable detective. It was Les Miserables in prime time, and that overtone is lost in this adaptation, which compresses the pursuit and confines it mostly to Chicago. But the tension and realism that result from permitting Kimble less running room amply compensate for the diminishment of the original's romantic aura...
...lecturer in constitutional law from Yale, creeping in to switch the real document for a copy. Then the heroine, a beautiful Israeli spy who doesn't realize the switch has already been made, puts the original back in place and grabs the copy. Suddenly . . . but there's no tension, no believability, no sense that Baghdad's streets sound or feel or smell different from those of Paris or Geneva, or that a man and a woman in peril might react in different ways. This sort of frequent-flyer spy story depends on texture, and there's not much offered. Archer...