Word: high tension
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Randy Dean (Hollomon) is a high school senior who lives with her aunt and her aunt's girlfriend. Her aunt's exgirlfriend has just come for an extended "visit," bringing a two-ton suitcase. Randy is having an affair with a married woman whom she meets intermittently in the bathroom of the gas station where Randy works. Complications arise when Evie Roy (Nicole Parker) shows up at the gas station with an alleged flat tire and a phobia of pressure pumps. Again, the camera watches only their legs as Evie runs around, trying to help Randy and yet stay...
Otherwise, White has not misstepped, either in her choice of this stunning script, her direction of the actors through moments of high tension and comedy, or the silences that can be the most difficult moments of all to fill on a stage...
...High drama? Tension you could cut with a knife? Not exactly...
...civilian world. "Everybody is wondering about what their own careers and their own finances will be, and of course, financial issues are major contributors to family violence," McGinn says. "There's a lot of tension." Outside experts point to other factors. Compared with civilian society, the military population is younger and drawn from lower socioeconomic ranks, and consequently more violence prone. Alcohol abuse is relatively high, pay tends to be poor and the military attracts men who have authoritarian tendencies...
...opened fire on Hamas activists who threw stones at them in Gaza's Rafah refugee camp two weeks ago. Last week Fatah and Hamas engaged in tit-for-tat kidnappings of each other's members in Jabalia. The hostages were freed within 24 hours, but tension between the two main Palestinian groups remains high...