Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civil to each other. Marriage is never easy. Husbands and wives in healthy relationships do not wake up every morning with smiles on their faces, but they are able to go about the business of life: rearing children, working, finding moments of peace in a home unplagued by constant tension...
...Tension builds and the film unravels when a boyhood friend of Ace's named Nick Santorro (Pesci) moves to Las Vegas. Nick is an enforcer whose job is to protect Ace. Instead he uses his innate charm and frantic firsts to intimidate just about everyone in Las Vegas. Nick's flamboyant style and brutal methods alienate everyone. When Nick, Ace and Ginger degenerate into a lying, cheating and stealing triangle, the film too gets stuck...
...greatest fear for those closest to Dole--those managing his effort and those who have known him for decades--is Dole's discomfort with his own campaign's core themes and strategy. They see and hear the tension in Dole's mind as he races forward, tension that is real and growing. Dole knows what he believes, and what he believes is often hidden as he follows the advice of "the professionals" controlling his effort, the men and women who view the Republican nominating electorate as more conservative than their candidate. Dole himself feels that dissonance keenly. His political soul...
Those places which still engage in "ethnic cleansing" are the areas of the world where there is still much tribal tension which transcends reason. The United States is a reasonable country. The Holocaust will never happen again, unless we are so blinded by isolationism to let it happen. And slavery and segregation of different races will never happen again. We have learned from history, so there is no need to dwell...
...Amman last week when Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mousse warned Arab countries against "scurrying after" normalization with Israel only to be interrupted by King Hussein, who fired back that the "scurrying" is only to catch up with Egypt who "preceded us in this by 17 years," reflects the growing tension between Arab states as the peace process is overcoming the "rhetoric phase" and is about to enter the "real phase" of economic and political cooperation. As the dynamics of Middle Eastern politics are changing, no Arab country--including Syris--wants to be left in the cold...