Word: high-strung
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...staging with slavish and unimaginative fidelity. Time after time, the camera remains static while the dialogue is left to fend for itself. Although he is one of Hollywood's most polished performers, Lemmon too often strains to achieve the lines of tension that characterized Art Carney's high-strung stage interpretation of the role...
...Damascus has any flaws, they are the kind that a shrewd trainer and top jockey can handle. Unlike Kelso, who was practically a pet around the stable, Damascus has a high-strung, rankish personality that sometimes loses races. Favored at 17-10 odds in the Kentucky Derby, he was already sweating before the start, folded in the stretch, and wound up third. To keep him calm in the stable, Trainer Frank Whiteley has now put a radio in his stall; Whiteley also dips the colt's protective leg bandages in a peppery solution to stop him from chewing...
...questing spirit of Mahler's music, no doubt explains its special meaning for today's college-age youth, who are among the biggest buyers of Mahler recordings, and who made up about 40% of the Vienna Festival audience. As Conductor Steinberg puts it: "Mahler was a high-strung genius who speaks today to a high-strung generation...
Having studied to be a soloist, he resents the ignominy of sawing away with the masses. He shares with other string players the conviction that there is something unfair about having devoted a lifetime to conquering his instrument when other musicians have mastered theirs in only a few years. High-strung, persnickety, he raises potted plants and an ulcer...
From the start, their mother recalled, the personalities of the nonidentical twins "had always been different." Mary was overweight, easygoing and carefree; Margaret was thin, high-strung, and always worried about health and finances. They earned their first money at 16 doing a vaudeville song-and-dance act in the U.S. and later in Europe. After a series of jobs in circuses, they retired to open a gift shop in their home town of Holyoke, Mass. When it closed in 1949, they lived in near-seclusion until their deaths...