Unfortunately, one of the troubles of contemporary Habdom, I've decided, is that where in decades past the old Forum, with all its ghosts, created a tense, demanding atmosphere, the new Bell Center creates one of almost frightening high-definition hysteria, as hard for the home-town boys to live up to as it is intimidating to the visitors.
Rather than attempting to limit mistakes, which sometimes I can't control and trying can make me tense, I demand the ball as much as possible and always be available as an outlet.
Among the great merits of "The Master" is that Lancaster Dodd's Cause isn't a quick fix; it's an active variety of therapy, which, for all of its factitious past-life regressions, also imposes stringent present-tense psychological demands on its subjects.
Sequence-of-tense rules demand a regular past-tense verb: "a sales agent asked whether the kiss was needed".
The standoff followed several tense days of demands and counterdemands, as well as the apparent beheading of another Japanese hostage.
"The act of drawing focuses you in the present tense and really demands that you notice what's happening," says Harris, whose travel experiences and artistic ability helped spark a new magazine, Troubadour, which in a sense is an extension of his sketchbooks.
They inhale them with their eyes; they move across their pages without the tense, alert attention demanded by books.
Dr. McCormick has tried to put the affair and its messy aftermath behind him even as the merger talks have become more tense, with the governor demanding the January deadline and the university president stalling for time.
When the outside demand for tense logic did come, it was from computer science.
And it has only gotten worse, with the force of top-down authority becoming ever tenser and more demanding.
Brazil's military leaders met the demands after a tense four-day standoff.
