Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that intolerance and tension is just what Rabbi Meir Kahane would have wanted...
This problem of dramatic tension and variation is complicated by the fact that this play treats itself with frank absurdity and insouciance. As Rob remarks at one point, "Even when something happens here, nothing happens." The text seems to strive for the bizarre comedy of nothingness epitomized in Waiting For Godot. In Beckett's work, though nothing happens, the audience is satisfied and even amused. But these characters lack the magnetism and originality of a Vladimir or an Estragon...
Remembering the Midwest during World War II and recalling the routines of farm life, Rhodes again demonstrates his impressive powers of description. Revealing the abused child still writhing within, he controls his anger like a man operating a nuclear reactor. The tension is palpable. The accomplishment -- learning to love and to work by controlling destructive urges -- is inspiring...
...sons of a dentist, a teacher, a banker and a part-time police officer -- were shown to seats in the sanctuary of the Clifton Jewish Center, one of the buildings they defaced. They were chewing gum, cracking knuckles, trying to balance yarmulkes on their heads. Markovitz broke the tension. "Am I to judge you by your earrings?" the rabbi asked one boy from the pulpit. "You all grew up with beautiful families, but you must never take anything for granted. You must always relearn the lesson of freedom...
...Tension between India and Pakistan over Kashmir is intense, and with war between them a real possibility, neither is likely to halt its nuclear weapons program. Spector estimates the Indian nuclear arsenal at 40 to 60 bombs. Pakistan sees its weapons as a deterrent to India's nuclear and conventional military superiority...