Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Halfway during the first act, August's eccentric, hypochondriac sister Delia Eriksen (Dana Gotleib) comes to live with them. The owner of the house in which they are all staying, the loveable and amusing backwoods hick Chad Jasker (Andrew Pitcher), is also always hanging around. Although there is obvious tension between August and Delia and obvious lust between Chad and Jean, everything is subtle. And for the most part, everyone gets along quite nicely...so nicely, in fact, that the audience is in danger of falling asleep...
...Place for Us" and make it interesting. Both Maria (Marisa Chandler) and Tony (Adam Wolfsdorf) have good voices and sing with confidence, but they generally lack the power to carry such a heavy musical weight; the pace slackens in their solos and duets. There is an added tension in their different singing styles. Chandler's delicate, operatic tone often seems at odds with Wolfsdorf's self-consciously dramatic, new Broad way style. When she's not singing. Chandler's over-deliberate inflections seem very reminiscent of Natalie Wood's in the film...
...tension and the excitement grew every time a Bear touched the ball. But each time Brown had possession, Harvard got in the way and reclaimed the ball...
...sorts of upsides and downsides of capitalism was written by the same economist who invented the misery index--Arthur Okun, Chairman of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. In 1975 he published a book called Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff. Its point was that there is natural tension between the two halves of its title. Redistributive taxation, minimum wages, unemployment insurance and the like may enhance equality, but they impede overall efficiency and growth. Ideology is partly a question of which side of the tradeoff you favor...
Brown also spoke about stages of writers' development and the "tension between...the private and the public," saying in the past has found it difficult to participate in events at the same time as she writes about them...