Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alberto deems American rock music acceptable when there is no sexual tension between a couple. With a large group from Kirkland, it would suffice, he suggested. For dancing with a partner, though, it is a poor "What are you going to talk about? There's so much noise," he declared. Salsa is his favorite rhythm. "There are so many pasos (steps). Merengue is only one rhythm. But with salsa, you can dance to the front, to the side, or back. You can dar muchas vueltas (twirl around and around...
With minutes to go before showtime, the tension inside CCTV's Master Control room is palpable...
...weekend filled with excitement and tension as the Crimson gelled or fell apart, sometimes flip-flopping in a matter of minutes as Delaney-Smith tried out different player combinations and defensive schemes...
...months, Moscow and Washington have quarreled over how many spies to let into each other's country under diplomatic cover. The Russians feel the U.S. has been stingy; the U.S. says the Russians have been "brazen and blatant," but "we've thwarted" them. The tension broke last week in Moscow with the arrest of Cheri Leberknight, 33, ostensibly a U.S. embassy official but actually a CIA spy, according to the Russians. More schoolmarm than Mata Hari in looks, she was snatched late Monday with "ink tablets for secret correspondence" and equipment for detecting surveillance, says Moscow...
...reduced to four principal actors. It is initially frustrating and somewhat trying to a North American audience, used as we are to seeing the glossy celluloid images associated with high production values. Here we get grainy and bleached images. Similarly, no music accompanies the narrative to underscore the tension and wrenching moments; all we are given is the sound of gravelly footsteps, running water and the other minutiae. The mundane sounds pervade Rosetta's microcosm, because, being unemployed, that's all she has. Because the presentation is frank and honest, and devoid of artifice, we realize that this...