Word: tensioning
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Second City's first law was that onstage its performers should avoid tension and strive for harmony. "You're supposed to make your fellow actors look good," says Ramis, also an early Second City star. "Bill internalized that ethic more than most. Belushi would come out, and the audience would laugh before he opened his mouth, but then he'd go into an extended character thing that would make the other actors feel superfluous. Bill got other people involved. He had energy, integrity. He was fascinating to watch...
...Starrrr Wars! Nothing but Starrrr Wars! Gimme those Starrrr Wars! Don't let them end!") And, as usual, he took it upon himself to stand up for the rest of the cast. When Chase returned to be host of the show in its third season, Murray decked him when tension between Chase and regular cast members came to a head. "Chevy had talent," Murray says. "But we came from that Second City thing of you make the other person look good. Meanwhile, he played himself in sketches all the time...
Then, however, tension turns into genocide. And Rusesabagina turns from glorified houseboy into antiheroic hero. His hotel can offer hundreds of terrified Tutsi food, beds and the protection of a thin, blue-helmeted line of U.N. peacekeepers, commanded by Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolte). The big question is, Can the volatile local militia, eager to stamp out "cockroaches" (its name for the Tutsi), be kept...
Nye’s main goal in writing the book was to “illustrate the tension between power and morality as it relates to issues today.” On the national level, he raises the question of the legitimacy of the use of force, while on the personal level, he stresses the need for a moral balance in policymakers...
...script of a film,” he says. “Fiction increases the impact of the words. Some words that would be cool and passionless appear different when set on the edge of a cliff or in the middle of a storm. It allows you to generate tension and passion...