Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glad to be home," Harvard Coach Gordon Graham said. "It was a horrible trip. Playing Brown was very demanding. There was a lot of match pressure and tension outside of the extraneous stuff. The kids were drained physically and mentally...
...that looks like the gulf version of American Graffiti. A dozen teenagers break-dance to booming rap music that pours out of the open hatchback of a silver Renault 5 with a U.S. flag painted on its rear window. Yet even this simple celebration brings a reminder of the tension between tradition and change that is testing Kuwait. Passing the scene, a fundamentalist youth mutters, "Islam doesn't need discotheques...
Falk's daunting task is made worse by the ineptitude of Liz Callaway, a fine singer but no actress, as the American woman Chris marries after he believes Kim is lost to him forever. At a critics' preview last week, several people laughed out loud at her just when tension should have been mounting. The other problem is Thuy, Kim's cousin and her betrothed from her village days. In London he was a scary communist zealot. Now Barry K. Bernal makes him an expedient turncoat whose only zeal is for Kim -- a dull, soap-opera diminution...
...people who just want to pursue theatre in an extracurricular way. I understand that argument and sympathize with it. There are other very serious theatre people here at Harvard who want to concentrate on it and develop their skills as undergraduates, and that's understandable, too. I think the tension will always exist between people who want more theatre training and those who enjoy doing it after school, as it were...
...Evelyn is too strong-willed to be as confused as she is throughout the play, although her conviction makes the jarring ending somewhat credible. Mecca Nelson brings life to the flat, emotionless Ruth, Evelyn's roommate. Tim Nelson's cameo as a radical, energetic speaker captures the emotional tension of the civil rights movement, and he succeeds in making his dogmatic lines interesting and even inspirational...