In each of five series of collages, Ms. Parra has used full-page advertisements from The New York Times as backgrounds for pasted-on images lifted from fashion and news magazines to evoke tensions between worlds of consumerist privilege and worlds of political and economic struggle.
The rest is covered by a generic field of sensuously brushed, subtly modulated color evoking tension between cosmic space and the raw materialism of paint.
Here his themes are equally effective, with a haunting D minor 7th underpinning a recurrent atmospheric motif; guitars, banjos and fiddles evoking tension, longing and loss while brooding orchestrations glower moodily.
Without ever addressing matters of op-ed debate, he evokes tensions between convention and law, and between private practice and public scrutiny, that are intrinsically political.
Mr. Rickson said they wanted to evoke the tension of being a radical theater in a fashionable neighborhood.
The three movements of "Foreign Bodies" (2001) use unlikely juxtapositions to evoke the tension of foreignness -- Mr. Salonen's permanent state, as he explains it, having lived away from his country for 20 years.
(More than 50 years ago the underwater sequences in Stanley Kramer's "On the Beach" evoked more tension and authenticity).
But whereas Beatty often devised such steps to evoke urban tensions, Mr. Benjamin used them for their inherent kinetic excitement.
Almost every one of the approximately 150 pictures by about 70 photographers evokes that tension between myth and reality.
A. R. Luria, the 20th-century Soviet neurologist, who was a mentor to and friend of Sacks, evoked the tension between "romantic" and "classical" science in his intellectual autobiography, "The Making of Mind".
