Word: tensioning
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Which brings us to the third big scenario. This is the diversity option, arising from the realization that the one-size-fits-all model of marriage may have been one of the biggest sources of tension between the sexes all along--based as it is on the wildly unrealistic expectation that a single spouse can meet one's needs for a lover, friend, co-parent, financial partner, reliably, 24-7. Instead there will be renewable marriages, which get re-evaluated every five to seven years, after which they can be revised, recelebrated or dissolved with no, or at least fewer...
...after this disturbing discovery is made that things get really intense. This is not just because it's getting dark (although things obviously do get a little scarier). The real tension is found among the group that survived the initial crash landing. A deal is made to make the convict Riddick a full partner in the group. You can imagine the issues of trust and mistrust that are going to come up here...
...watch these people deal with emotional and moral dilemmas. Pitch Black's greatest strength is that it actually has a story to tell, and characters that develop and change. Seems like a simplistic idea, doesn't it? But it makes for a cool combination of primal and sophisticated tension and suspense that's wonderfully nerve-wracking to watch...
...smooth, its gentle curves both entice and arouse. To slide one's fingers across the firm, rounded heel and up into that ticklish valley of ecstasy--perfection! And who can resist the ten most erogenous zones of the female form: the toes, each a powder keg of sexual tension, each begging to be fondled, caressed, sucked and stroked until...
...debates, McCain and Bauer forged some sort of alliance - based primarily on their opposition to Bush's campaign." TIME political correspondent John Dickerson, also on the road in South Carolina, sees Bauer's choice as a not-so-subtle poke at rival Christian conservatives. "There's a deep-seated tension between the Ralph Reed?Pat Robertson wing of the Christian right and the Gary Bauer wing," says Dickerson. "Bauer sees Reed and Robertson as promoting a caricature of social conservatism, and he wants to break from that." Bauer threw his weight behind McCain, Dickerson adds, in response to Reed...