Word: taut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vaughan Glazer. But it is Mr. Hitchcock's picture: he dominates every foot of it with his unmatched technique in building up antithesis and conflict, and taking you out of your chair as the chase quickens. You may find it a trifle long, but it is timely and taut, just the thing for those post-divisional blues...
Bataan taught America a humiliating thing, too: that U.S. soldiers could be beaten, could be taught the fullest ignominy of unconditional surrender. And they could be given this lesson by the funny, myopic, bucktoothed, bandylegged, pint-sized Jap-who, it suddenly appeared, was taut-muscled, courageous, vastly menacing...
...then take sides violently for or against it, have had a field-day in comparing the so-called "well-made" play with the so-called "mood" play. Champion of the former group is Lillian Hellman, whose melodramatic hits, including "Watch on the Rhine" which opened here last night, are taut, compact plays, carefully plotted and manipulated. Prime progenitor of the "mood" plays is, of course, William Saroyan...
...risk insurance for the fishermen. Owners thought the fishermen, who shared the fishing profits, should share the insurance cost. Pending a final decision, the board ordered the owners to pay. When they still balked, the board cracked the whip until they complied. Act II-the old, taut problem of North-South wage differentials-also shaped up well at first. C.I.O. aluminum workers in the South wanted wage boosts up to the level of the Northern workers. The board granted a 7?-an-hour increase, reducing the differential. But in a statement which shot a bright ray of hope into...
...assembling in Rio. In fine fettle, Aranha snapped orders to painters, rushed completion of a new five-unit air-conditioning system, supervised the refurbishing of crimson satin wall coverings and rich Aubusson rugs in the Itamaraty Palace, Brazil's Foreign Office. He conferred daily with President Vargas, with taut, ascetic U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery and with a stream of other diplomats, some of whom left the Palace with fresh paint on their coattails...