Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because the central administration has few income sources of its own, the fees it assesses each of the faculties to cover the core activities it undertakes lead to a tension between the power of the center, sitting atop the University hierarchy, and the perception that it cannot fund itself...
...kiddie-pleaser The Secret Garden, was smart to choose a tight, simple story that allows for a few idiosyncratic touches but matches more closely with her essential narrative conservatism. Recently guilty of filling her films with too many climaxes, the director shows considerable discipline in building the tension between her characters until the drama reaches a critical mass...
...seethes with a bitterness that continually cracks through the surface, while Warren's anger, being mixed with personal guilt, is internalized for most of the film. Their resentment envelops the more peripheral characters such that the air at each family dinner is not so much charged as brittle with tension...
When one of the climbers falls and hangs for his life by a rope, Annaud seems determined not to cash in on the moment's cliffhanger potential. There's no music to augment the tension, no exciting swooping pans--only matter-of-fact, straight-on shots of the climbers on both ends of the rope, accompanied by the sounds of scraping and strained breathing. Later, too, as the action proceeds through unavoidably beautiful terrain, Pitt and other characters are shown on uninspiring rocky stretches or in close-quartered caves, tents and villages...
...second link among the paintings before 1901 is the developing tension between the projected space of the image and the actual surface of the canvas or picture plane. Like the Impressionists before him, Picasso applies paint thickly on the canvas, drawing attention to the fact that a painting is more a thing, a surface, than a mysterious window onto another world...