Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reader expects this structure, even craves it. But Phillips refrains from easing the tension of the narrative, instead depicting two characters much more ambiguous in their views on race, slavery and one another. In the book's final version, Emily's bigotry is accompanied by doubt and fear; and Cambridge is not the anti-imperialist freedom fighter we expect, but a complicated man who resents not only his own enslavement, but also being forced to live among the "heathens" who are his fellow slaves...
...very least, it is more interesting and of more relevance. Much of Indiana's poetic impulse, carried over from his chef d'oeuvre, Horse Crazy, shines through. The sex scene at a former Nazi Concentration Camp, as one can well imagine, carries a poetic power which teems with tension. It most creatively epitomizes Indiana's acerbic and incessant critique of Reagan's few and late policies on AIDS. It also embodies much of the nihilism (brilliantly conveyed in last summer's film "The Living End") felt by people surrounded by the epidemic: "...he and Chris had both tested positive...
...There's] more of a general feeling that the management is being unnecessarily harsh," Friberg said. "There's a tension between the workers in general and some of the different management people...
Pennypacker proctor Edwin G. Abel III said he noticed less tension than in past lotteries, adding that he senses anticipation but not apprehension...
...past, neighborhood- oriented citizen groups have been at odds with the business community in CAmbridge, The tension has manifested itself in a struggle between the CCA- dominated City COuncil and the more development- oriented city manager...