Word: high tension
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...Filipino war bride who lived across the street and the sharp-eyed Italian grandmothers who had raised their own children on South Elmwood Place. Frank worked for a Jewish grocer from the time he was 8 until he was 14. A year after Raines left, Franklin High School was tight with racial tension, which eventually fueled riots in Seattle's Central Area. But the Class of 1967 was still a harmonious blend of Asians, blacks and whites, and Raines was its star. The yearbook could hardly hold all his honors--student-body president, gifted singer, statewide debate champ...
...name for a film, Jerry Maguire is less a title than a label. But in its refusal to pump up the volume, it catches the quietly confident spirit in which this movie has been made. Neither Crowe nor his actors appear to be working hard for hilarity, high romantic tension or a melodramatic denouement. They make no attempt to either glamorize or deglamorize athletes and their hangers-on. There is a recognizable ordinariness about the way these people stumble in and out of trouble, in and out of grace--an ambiguous note, at once tart and sweet, knowing and innocent...
...setting over this frigid, high tension duel, Winthrop proceeded to find the back of the net on all five shootout attempts...
...paper where he's a star columnist. "Have you seen the buses?" he boasts to his ex-wife. "I'm on the M4, the M10--and the 6. That's crosstown, baby." She's a high-strung but determined professional woman trying to give up smoking; he pesters their daughter to find out whom her mom is dating. Next headline: ROMANTIC TENSION BREWING...
...object would bring if it did not possess the added cachet of having belonged to someone famous. For things owned by Jackie, fair market value was obviously, at least to those familiar with the occult workings of renown, just the starting point. The tension and electricity in the auction room hummed around the question: How high the markup...