Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York Times editorialized afterward that "the four networks deserve unstinting praise for threading a careful path between sensationalism and censorship." In fact, election-night broadcasts were an orgy of both vices, as all the networks generated false tension while suppressing the very information that would dissipate...
This dichotomy has led to some tension betweenHillel and the Harvard Foundation, which has nopermanent student representation for the Jewishcommunity...
...revolver, let alone fire it. But her weirdly devoted, devoutly weird neighbor Skippy (James LeGros) is happy to take it off her hands. Debbie's pompous husband (Stephen Collins) to Skippy: "What are you doing with my wife's gun in your pants?" My New Gun's dramatic tension arises both * from the eccentricity of the performers -- except for the sweetly befuddled Lane, the only human on this planet -- and from the audience's familiarity with so many other movies where guns go off all the time. It has the assured, affectless style of Twin Peaks remade as a sitcom...
...explosive nature of these repressed emotions does not appear, however, in Gilbert's version of the drama. Gilbert's production comes across as simply three pissedoff alcoholics, one of whom is consumptive, trying to hide their thoughts and emotions from the aged drug-addicted mother-figure. The tension exists but, since this it never remits, its effect on the audience is lost through the resulting absence of transition and change. Apologies become stiff and insincere and there is no room for noticeable reaction to events within the plot...
...credibility. It is a difficult trick to plausibly turn a witty, realistic play about aging professionals' romantic entanglements into a violent and grand tragedy, no matter how many references to operatic emotion are strewn throughout. Despite the fine acting, the second act drags a little, and the slacking in tension makes the bloody ending seem histrionic and a little gratuitous...