Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dear John note when she fled town a quarter-century ago is still single, not too thick around the waist, and still carries the torch. He's also, natch, the prosecuting attorney who intends to jug Caroline's niece--who, it develops, is not really her niece, but ... Tension mounts. So do the old lovers. But the tale's prevailing oddity is that Caroline is not convincingly female. Not that she should cry or lose earrings, but as things are, she is simply a stick-figure lawyer who happens to have a woman's name. Had Patterson hit the replace...
Though a bit lengthy at a hefty 639 pages, In Confidence is well worth the energy. The perspective of a diplomat, standing at the intersection of the two superpowers at the time of greatest tension between them, is unlike that given in any other book on the subject...
...Specifically, there has been obviously lots of tension over the implementation of the Maull-Lewis report by Dean Lewis, and for the best interest of the programs, that needs to be resolved," Ehrlich said. "Hahrie and I hope to do that constructively with... Dean Lewis, Professor [of Government and Sociology Theda] Skocpol and the PBHA advisory board...
...response, PBHA, Inc. has resolved to employ its own staff and remedy the longstanding tension between PBHA, Inc, and the administration. We have done this in the spirit of student initiative and with the support of prominent community leaders, faculty, alumni and the Boston and Cambridge City Councils...
...this adds good weight and tension to the movie and provides a lot of very good actors with the opportunity to do honest, probing work in a context where, typically, less will do. But Mann's aspirations don't stop there. Having revived the historical saga in The Last of the Mohicans, he obviously wants to do the same thing for what has become a much more familiar (and tiresome) genre, the urban action picture...