Assemblywoman Deborah J. Glick, whose district includes Greenwich Village, said it would not help the mayor's cause to have the debate take place amid this "very tense circumstance".
So next time someone suggests a nice, quiet game of chess, or paints it as an intellectual pursuit played by wimps, tell them they've got it all wrong: this is a fight to the finish played in the tensest of circumstances by two players who are physically and mentally living on the edge.
It was the first killing of a working city marshal since 1984, and angry city officials said Mr. Bryce died in what would ordinarily be tense but routine circumstances: he was to deliver court papers and padlock an apartment door.
The application of yogic techniques to affect specific changes in vital functioning of the body's organs and systems allows the individual to shift from unconscious response mode to chosen response in tense or challenging circumstances.
From these women's point of view, sex was mainly something that was neither anticipated or planned for, but rather often happened in spite of themselves and was associated with very tense and violent circumstances.
