Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listed the benefits of this strategy as "not having the tension because this is pass/fail and not getting tired of the subject. My roommates are all sick of their topics...
Frivolities like these further fragment the effect of the whole. In general, there's no real sense of tension or heartbreak in this production. It's there in bits and pieces, but these just doesn't fuse into the one continuously rising dramatic arc of emotion that the music so darkly promises. In the end, you feel you've just seen a series of well-sung pieces--not the complete work of art we think of as great opera...
...right. Modern history teems with tales of the potential usurpation of mankind by its own technology: John Henry vs. the steam drill. Dr. Frankenstein vs. the monster. Linda Hamilton vs. the Terminator. The genius of chess lies in the sublime tension between logical analysis (call it Truth) and human intuition (call it Beauty). Our fascination with Deep Blue derives from fearful wonderment at the possibility that computers, which have already surpassed us at the former, may soon produce some chilling emulation of the latter. Kasparov, the latest standard bearer in humanity's war against our own obsolescence, is stoical...
...People hold tension in their bodies, and different people have different stress organs--guts, muscles, headaches," he says. "For people who do feel a lot of muscle tension, massage is great...
...tension between the students of the public-service group and the desires of the University led to a large demonstration last December in support of PBHA's reclaiming its previous autonomy...