Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arab media that Hussein responded by reorganizing the elite force that protects him and his family. The reports point to the mounting pressures on the leader and increasing dissatisfaction among the Iraqi people, says TIME Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe. "Under the circumstances, there is a lot of tension within the society," Marlowe says. "People are starving to death in this enormous prison state. The only way out of the country is to drive 12 hours across the desert to Jordan. And Saddam keeps a hangman on duty 24 hours a day." Marlowe also cautions that there are at least...
...that he'll return to America and Tom will get his money, while clearly having no intention of doing so. On a disastrous yachting trip on which Tom gets sunstroke, Philipe throws Marg's manuscript overboard, and Marg demands to be put ashore, it becomes clear that the tension between Philipe and Tom will soon lead to a drastic measure on one of their parts. A marooning, a stabbing, a forgery, a feigned suicide, a seduction, a framing and what seems like "the perfect crime" are all necessary to sate their rivalry...
...Philipe, pretending to address Marg and kissing his own image in the mirror. Philipe discovers him and orders, "Take off my clothes", which to contemporary ears sounds like a sexual demand. Incredibly, the homoeroticism of this scene was not apparent to the audiences of the sixties, but this coded tension is vital to understanding the vehemence of the two men's emotions for each other...
...from Philipe and Marg, starts his own odyssey across Italy on which he attempts to emulate every extravagance of their decadent lifestyle. It is here that Tom's character is at last developed. The extremity of his ambitions and envy is demonstrated by his tigerlike eating--at times of tension he is seen devouring a peach in three angry bites, gnashing down a blazing chicken straight from the oven with his bare hands, slicing and gulping down long meaty lengths of sausage. All the while his sculpted good looks, strong cheekbones and short, rumpled hair bring an unnerving purity...
...still more being driven across the border by violence at the time of Rwandan independence in 1959. Since then Hutu of Rwandan ancestry have outnumbered both Tutsi immigrants and indigenous tribes. This imbalance, along with a government decree stripping Rwandan immigrants and their descendants of Zairian citizenship, spawned tension that flared into fighting in 1993. That conflict pitted Hutu against indigenous Hunde tribesmen and was marked by gruesome rituals, with Hunde sometimes eating the hearts of their victims to gain strength and Hutu returning the favor...