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Racial tensions are already at a fever pitch, when a tiny black girl disappears.
Frightened, vulnerable refugees, escaping the political tensions permeating Europe in 1930 (and, we are to assume, the escalating prominence of the Nazi party), come to stay with friends in London; seven years later, having received their British citizenship, the younger sister embarks on a dancing career while the older sister reconnects with her handsome fiancé, now a newspaperman and leader in the political underground.
The original was made during a time of racial tensions in this country.
Stephen Verona co-wrote and directed this story about an elderly married couple living in a decaying New York neighborhood near Coney Island who refuse to relocate despite escalating crime and racial tensions.
The story plays beautifully, its underlying tensions coming to a head near the end of the film.
I had an enjoyable time working on the set with the crew and producers, and watched them solve last minute problems and deal with financier/producer tensions in order to get this finished.
What starts out as a well-acted exploration of family tensions - especially those between a relatively uneducated set of middle-class parents and their college-educated son - gives way to the clumsy, overwrought melodramatics of the second half of the film.
Director Robert Ellis Miller handles Arkin and Locke just right, but unfortunately there's a subplot shoehorned in about racial tensions in the town which plays like irrational soap opera (and just gets in the way).
This film has probably already made the circuit of the Jewish film festivals and will continue to be screened in Jewish series in cinemateques, as it deals with the French Jewish environment and the tensions between the Jewish traditional life and the modern world.
Pre-Nazi Germany is a hotbed of escalating tensions, but decadent nightclub performer Sally Bowles is oblivious to the encroaching horrors.
All of this leads up to the man being arrested and racial tensions rising and eventually spinning out of control.
Most of the audience (including myself) were less concerned about the film's historic accuracy than its portrayal of Brecht's "hareem" and the tensions that seem to always accompany such an arrangement.
There are the usual animosities between soldiers and Indians, and the agent's clashes with the military's preference to disarm the Apache police creates further tensions.
Kenyatta has a chance to steer Kenya away from the ethnic tensions that have plagued its society and economy.
As Obama has been forced over the course of his presidency to find his voice on racial tensions and mass murders, he has made some of the most moving speeches of his presidency.
Although the EU’s foreign policy toward Russia has become more effective, tensions have, if anything, grown – and may continue to do so.
Further destabilizing the region are enduring tensions between Turkey and Israel.
As a result, global economic rebalancing is likely to accelerate, almost inevitably giving rise to political tensions.
It is not too late for him to address other longstanding tensions, such as with Iran and North Korea – not to mention the festering conflict between Israel and Palestine – with similar boldness.
Agreed EU-wide immigration rules are needed to reconcile shrinking Europe’s hunger for imported labor with widespread fears of cultural tensions and social unrest.
Political instability and conflict have contributed heavily to this food insecurity, but insufficient food production has also likely heightened tensions and exacerbated hunger.
The resulting political tensions led to a second Thirty Years’ War that brought Western civilization to the brink of collapse.
If Europe's mainstream parties do not begin a more serious investment in understanding racial tensions in Europe and put "race" as one of their main priorities, individuals like Le Pen are bound to try filling the void with their message of hate.
But, despite all the disagreements and tensions, the real story may be that there is near-unanimous agreement that the solution must be European; everybody agrees that the challenges posed by the new world disorder are best faced together.
Already, Jordan’s social-welfare budget is reaching a breaking point, spurring social tensions.
Eliminating subsidies and trade barriers would mean that resources could be used more efficiently, so there would be more scope to reduce inequality and poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, malnutrition, and disease.
Despite the rising regional tensions that inspired these moves, China’s relations with its neighbors and the United States are not fated to lead to direct confrontation.
The result is social tensions, political blockage, and an inability to reform or modernize.
One hopes that the Trump administration – particularly the incoming secretary of state, Mike Pompeo – will heed these lessons as tensions with Iran heat up.
But, as Republicans point out, Western Europe’s standard of living is 30% lower than that of the US, on average;Europe also faces slower growth, higher unemployment, and heightening social tensions.
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