By 1974, the beloved sportscaster Marv Albert was delivering tense play-by-play narration as thirty-one regional champs jockeyed for a cash prize of five thousand dollars and the undeniably radical title of "Best Air Hockey Player in the World" at the sport's first championship tournament, held in New York City.
The sonata was spurred into life by a seizure of impatience; the cracking pace at which Uchida took its outer movements led to some tense playing, so that the smiling slow movement came as a respite from what seemed, from composer and pianist alike, to be unusual anger.
GB's men's curlers have qualified for the Winter Olympics semi-finals after beating Norway 6-5 in a tense play-off.
Great Britain's wheelchair curlers have won Winter Paralympic bronze after beating China 7-3 in a tense play-off in Sochi.
After winning five and losing four of their round robin fixtures, Great Britain's men only made it through to the knock-out phase after coming through a tense play-off against Norway.
The study used 240 words divided into 3 test conditions (80 words each): regular past tense (played), words with onset-embedded stem (claim), and simple words (shape) (see also Supplementary Table 1).
It's the kind of meaty, tense drama that plays out so well in the theatre, which becomes an arena in which to raise issues of justice and forgiveness, and to question how we continue living in the face of unbearable grief.
She followed with a critically acclaimed performance in Chokher Bali (2003; Choker Bali: A Passion Play), a tense drama based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
On the surface this is not your typically cryptic and tense Albee play.
The rest of the film is likened to a "tense stage play".
Negligible choreographic phrases for all three and a bit of tense sexual play between El Chayo and La Santa Muerte offer hints, and only hints, at possible directions for development.
