Word: taut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of the lost supplies, Mukden's 2,500,000 civilians faced slow death by hunger and disease. Cabled TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin after a look at the city: "You see the marks of the struggle in the taut, unsmiling faces on the streets. You see it in the meagerly equipped hospitals where acute tuberculosis has doubled. Rickets, twilight blindness, beriberi and other vitamin-deficiency diseases have become common...
...performances-notably those of James Barton, Reginald Beane and James Cagney, are as deft a compromise between stage & screen as you are likely to see. Nevertheless, a good deal which would be as taut and resonant as a drumhead on the stage is relatively dull and slack on the screen. On the other hand, those who made the picture have given it something very rare. It's obvious that they love the play and their work in it, and their affection and enjoyment are highly contagious. They have done so handsomely by Saroyan that in the long run everything...
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...spite of some minor implausibilities, The Iron Curtain is a scrupulous and restrained movie, as well as a persuasive and exciting one. Under William Wellman's taut direction, it catches something of the soul-freezing discipline and mutual mistrust which must be the normal climate for totalitarian operations; something, too, of the way ardent amateurs in "front" groups are exploited. And near the end, when Gouzenko is trying hopelessly to find a Canadian who will listen to his story while the pursuers close in, the suspense is really awful...
...weeks before its fateful election, Italy was taut with the danger of civil...