Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Green's resignation in 1994 triggered reports of personal tension between him and Rudenstine--that, sources say, were highly embarrassing to the president and the administration...
...best, Morrisroe is relaxed but intensely focused, drawing the viewer into his work. He is not afraid to be beautiful, sometimes creating photographs that look more like paintings. However, the undercurrent of pessimism, springing from his experiences, gives his work a complexity and tension that makes one wonder how much more he could have achieved if he had not died...
...particularly testy exchange flared up after Domenici and Tyson got into what senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl called a "gloves-off discussion over Medicare and Medicaid cuts." When Tyson interrupted Domenici, the New Mexico Senator snapped, "I did not interrupt you, and you spoke for 14 minutes!" The tension subsided only after Sinai took the opportunity to remind his fellow panelists that in economics, discourse and disagreement often go hand in hand. "If we laid all the economists from end to end," he said, "they would not reach the same conclusion." That was one point on which even Tyson...
...with a weenie voice and a brassy poignancy. The distracting visual trope of Allen's last few movies--that virtually every scene, no matter how long, must be filmed in one shot with a very fidgety camera--pays off in the first meeting of Lenny and Linda; the comic tension is deliciously built and sustained. And when the chorus breaks into some dreamy Cole Porter harmonies as background to an unlikely amour, the goofiness is almost magical...
Whatever approaches individual schools take the University-wide commitment to tenure and its need for new blood are bound to create tension...