Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home was half an hour away from Vineland, N.J., the Ku Klux Klan's largest center in the Northeast, she says. She served on a committee fighting hate crimes during her senior year, a time when her school was rife with racial tension...
...Mogwai emerges here: on four of the tracks, percussion is barely apparent. Chiming guitars and a somber bass make for an elegiac sound on "Stanley Kubrick" and "Burn Girl Prom Queen," while a piano provides the melody for "Christmas Song." The band's primary strength is its sense of tension: they have an ability to balance melody with noise akin to the Velvet Underground. On this release, as on their last album (Come On Die Young) the element of noise has largely been moved to the background, though it shines through on the final song, "Small Children in the Background...
Though Lungren seemed calm during Carville's jokes, the tension between them grew when the discussion turned to more contentious issues such as race relations, the war on drugs and government spending...
...constantly debating these issues, and this is exactly the kind of dialogue that the Freshman Dean's Office envisions when it puts students together with incompatible and not simply neutrally "different" beliefs. In my rooming situation, religion and sexual orientation may not make a perfect fit, but this tension does not make a case for switching rooms...
...tension between perpetual boredom and perpetual readiness is purportedly a skill they teach us, a horrible patience.?But it is just as often apparent that a mix-up or a missed assignment has occurred at the hand of some sergeant?or other, and no one ever seems in any hurry to get things moving again...