Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this ancient city, dusty and undeveloped but holy to all faiths, is steeped in bloodshed and tension, a tangled maze of roadblocks, cement barricades and metal spikes manned by hundreds of Israeli soldiers to keep militant Jews and militant Palestinians apart. Both sides have grown hard as Palestinians stab and stone the settlers and Jews shoot and vandalize their neighbors in regular tit-for-tat violence...
Homosexuality is a contentious issue, but we must face that tension not with moral absolutism but with "tolerance and dialogue." Mr. McFadden, while expressing his moral positions and advocating dialogue, does nothing but chip away from the bedrock of toleration on which this country was supposedly founded. --Alex-Handrah Aime...
...boasts to his ex-wife. "I'm on the M4, the M10--and the 6. That's crosstown, baby." She's a high-strung but determined professional woman trying to give up smoking; he pesters their daughter to find out whom her mom is dating. Next headline: ROMANTIC TENSION BREWING...
...social scene to its members. If a fraternity house were to open itself to all men who wish to join, it would cease to serve its function. Similarly, adding women (or men to a sorority) would fundamentally alter the nature of the house's social environment, because of sexual tension and attraction arising from biological differences. Therefore, it is just as moral for a fraternity to reject any woman, or a male who the members feel wouldn't contribute to the social atmosphere, as it is for Harvard to reject someone with low SAT scores...
...Geraldo Rivera. In the end, after his escape collapses just as his siblings have predicted, Brad comes close to a moral moment of truth--should he kill his mother, for all their sakes?--and Farnsworth does a good job in this scene, alternately stricken and hopeful. But the tension of the moment is dissipated in a ghostly flashback, which takes us back to the months before the lost baby died, leading us to believe that it was this event that pushed Mamma over the edge. As this was crystal clear already, this final scene comes across as contrived and melodramatic...