Word: high tension
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Though Syrian President Hafez Assad has so far been cleverer than Gaddafi in covering his tracks, revelations of a possible Syrian role in the El Al attempt have raised the already high level of tension between Israel and Syria. Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin told TIME last week that he believed "the decision about this crazy murderous act was taken at a relatively high level" in the Syrian government. Syria's support of terrorism "increased the danger" of a military confrontation, he warned, but he stressed that Israel does not intend to go to war with its neighbor...
...first in eight years, displays a heightened visual awareness: it blends precise research into prison life, the gem market and rock climbing with outlandishly risky escapades, including a scene in which the hero circumvents a security system by mounting an elevator cable and skittering along a momentarily inactive high-tension wire. The basic elements are conventional: an ex-con who wants to go straight, a fallen woman redeemed by love, moral corruption that goes unnoticed by police, schemes and counterschemes for revenge, deluded invocations to chivalry and honor among thieves. The end game is enlivened by Freudian twists...
...deny Bok or McDonald and Riggs their fun. Indeed, it was a pleasant, funny relief from the tension and high emotion of encampments and protests...
Conwell said that he had seen all the hostages in Beirut and that all were in good health, although he acknowledged that they were under "strain and tension." It was later reported, however, that one of the hostages, Jimmy Dell Palmer, 48, of Little Rock, had been taken to a hospital for examination. Palmer suffers from high blood pressure and a heart condition, and his worried family had sent medicine to him in Beirut...
...piece began slowly: a couple dances alone, six join them and then six more arrive. Suddenly the women are flying through the air in a whirlwind of purple and violet. As the tension builds the entire group in unison begins to wriggle, writhe and shake. Then in a mutlisecond switch they are standing stiff as boards. These fast movements continue--appearing like a video set at high speed--until one can not absorb any more. Then the choreography slows down, even as Gerhwin's concerto continues to roll...