Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elvis Costello is only 30 seconds into his set before a small audience in a Los Angeles TV studio when -- boing! -- a broken guitar string brings the music to a halt. During rehearsals, Costello has already groused about the lighting and the sound, so the tension in the wings is palpable. But the mercurial rocker calmly accepts a new guitar and starts again, launching into an acoustic rendition of Deep Dark Truthful Mirror. When Costello leaves the stage nine songs and an hour later, the audience is clamoring for more...
...DOLL'S HOUSE. Director Ingmar Bergman gives Ibsen's landmark drama of women's liberation a poignancy and tension comparable to the best in his films by trimming the chitchat and keeping all the clashing characters onstage at all times. The Royal Dramatic Theater of Sweden's production, in Swedish with English translation via headphones, is at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this week only...
...Mikhail Gorbachev panhandles the U.S. and McDonald's draws longer lines in Moscow than Lenin's tomb, it is difficult to believe that less than three decades ago, Washington and Moscow were on the steely edge of war. The drama and tension of those years are vividly recaptured in Michael Beschloss's The Crisis Years. But this is no simple rehash of John Kennedy's sparring with Nikita Khrushchev. Beschloss casts new light on topics ranging from the Cuban missile crisis to the security risks of J.F.K.'s sexual dalliances...
...Ethnic tension was a central element of the trouble in Addis Ababa. The central government, like the capital itself, has long been dominated by the Amhara people, who consider themselves the most sophisticated of the Ethiopians and therefore the country's rightful masters. The Tigreans speak a different language and stem from a region hundreds of miles north of the capital. They have been rivals of the Amharas for two millenniums, going back to a time when the capital of ancient Ethiopia was Aksum, in the heart of Tigre country. When the Democratic Front arrived in Addis Ababa, hundreds...
...normal senior year came to a halt in August, 1990 when, serving as a summer school proctor, she learned of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The invasion and subsequent Gulf War disrupted and traumatized the lives of many Palestinians. For Abu-Ghaida, the war brought immense amounts of tension...