Word: sinew
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...attack, coiling and recoiling with the relentless regularity of a blind and savage dog against an alien cage of restraint, whose cage was a 4 ft. by 6 ft. cubicle squatting at the end of an ice highway, hunched full of glove and stick and defending bulk in which sinew and muscle and the accouterments of a savage and irrepressible game warfare were dedicated to the sole purpose of thwarting repeatedly (and failing repeatedly) the thrusts and advances of the tripartite attack. The Line, molding and fusing local with international into the Harvard experience, blending the blunt and terrible gutteral...
...Fields, Neville Marriner conductor; Argo, $5.95). Whether accompanying French-horn players (see above) or reinterpreting the Baroque repertory (the Bach orchestral Suites, the Handel Concerti Grossi, Op. 6), Neville Marriner is one of the best and busiest maestros on the London recording scene. His Mozart, an artful shading of sinew, sensuousness and sonority, is as good as anything he does. Indeed, Nachtmusik is the freshest, rosiest reading of that serenade to come along in years...
...next book, The Prosecutor, was an example of what Mills does as well as anyone writing now: hard, dogged, angry reporting about the morally hopeless entanglements of big-city justice. The prosecutor of the title was an overworked D.A. trying to get a Mafia conviction and discovering every sinew of the law flexed against...
...Brady, as her boss, took an active, daily interest in Bazaar. Nonetheless, both insisted last week that the parting was genuinely sorrowful. "I think he's nifty," said Nancy of Brady, who returned the compliment in a memo to the staff: "She's been the soul and sinew of Bazaar." From now on, though, the soul will be solely Brady...
...gore, it should win Hughes a new and wider following. In it he parcels out human history and legend in a succession of charnel-house episodes. The Garden of Eden, Oedipus, St. George, all our prototypes of beauty, heroism and love, are reduced to so much pulsing, thrashing sinew, murderously intent on survival. A harsh and one-sided view, to be sure, yet difficult to deny. The headlines are on its side. Hughes is too cunning a craftsman to try to convey his vision in headlines or rant of any kind. Instead of giving it full vent, he gives...