Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...angry remembrances of a "picture of that woman in his room," something we had heard nothing about until that point. A duet Kitty and Jack sang about the what the future may hold was similarly original in content, bringing up subjects such as miniskirts and stereopticals, and fraught with tension between the couple...
Director Arlene Sanford has attempted to beef up the plot with a bunch of tried-and-true signs of a broken family--tension between Jake and his stepmother, heated sibling rivalry between Jake and his kid sister, etc., etc. No prizes for guessing if he makes peace with his family, patches things up with his girlfriend, or makes it home for Christmas. No surprise, the story line is absolutely predictable: When Jake enters a Santa race for a $1,000 prize in one town, the big question is not if he'll win, but how long it'll take...
...concerns itself not with explosions, but with people. There is a certain Lolita-esque aspect to Whale's pursuit of Boone--the degenerate European going after the ingenue American--but this is balanced by the film's ultimately sympathetic portrayal of both characters. There's something worthwhile in the tension between a film dealing with homosexual love and a heterosexual audience member: unable to rely on the stock clich‚s of romance, the film is forced to go about its business more subtly. Gods and Monsters does this, and does this well...
...could have gone farther. After all, Obuchi consciously reiterated statements made in 1972, thinking that the issue had already been addressed. Kunihiko Makita, Japan's Consul-General in Hong Kong, knew there would be controversy. The South China Morning News reports that Makita tried to diffuse some of the tension by explaining that, although Japan does have extreme nationalists who "refuse to acknowledge history, if you ask a citizen on Tokyo's streets of his views of Japan's past, I believe he would express remorse and shame...
...radical Muslims, communists and renegade soldiers fomenting catastrophe. But in a swirl of the very disorder he claimed to have dispelled, Suharto was forced last May to relinquish power to a trusted disciple, B.J. Habibie. Even that move could not stem the unrest, and after six months of political tension and economic hardship, chaos has returned to the world's fifth most populous country. Indonesia's woes have been a driving force behind Asia's financial crisis, and the new instability could trigger global market shudders...