Word: high-strung
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...worker easily, effortlessly, lackadaisically sweeps out the station. A bell rings somewhere. At the grade crossing alongside the station the attendant comes out of his little house and brings down the gates, chatting for a moment with a passerby holding up traffic in expectation of the train. The high-strung coursers of the Orange Line see a distant ideal...
...years in the Medicine section, interviewed pioneer blood-pressure researcher Dr. John Laragh, our cover subject, and pored over such weighty medical tomes as Laragh's 900-page Hypertension Manual. Notes Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story: "Hypertension sounds like a disease of nervous, high-strung individuals. Many people are embarrassed to admit that they have it. We'd like to clear away some of the misconceptions...
Allan Arbus is overly dramatic and gives the weakest performance in the production as the writer-director. He's supposed to be a starry-eyed idealist but looks more like a high-strung neurotic, and he fails to convey the seriousness of his own dramatic message...
There are two scenes in The Hostages that are especially good and that point up the movie's strong points. One comes when the criminals first leave the courthouse with their hostage and confront the press. The newsmen, seemingly oblivious to the high-strung tension of the moment, point their lights and microphones at the kidnappers, only adding to the tension of the escape and the danger of the whole incident...
...work around the stables is concentrated in a single four-hour period, and from 6 to 10 a.m. the area sees a constant flow of activity-but activity that is controlled and subdued, conducted quietly, almost noiselessly, lest the high-priced and high-strung animals that are the center of all the attention become frightened...