Word: taut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atonalist Anton von Webern's whispering, taut vignettes, Five Movements for String Quartet...
...Taut & Happy? In this deadweight volume, the character and personality of King show through only accidentally, like a guilty glimmer of light from a ship darkened for war. Most of the book is obviously a lightly edited version of King's own autobiographical notes (they should have been edited drastically), though King refers to himself aloofly in the third person. The effect is like the royal "we." Only in an epilogue and incidental notes does Collaborator Whitehill manage to chip off the dapple paint and reveal the metal beneath...
...forced him to keep them. Ever since, Ernest King has driven hard bargains and resolutely kept his promises. Because he made it a point of honor to be fair to subordinates, Sundowner King cannot understand why they seldom warmed to him. Neither can he understand why a taut ship is not automatically a happy ship...
...Neill stretches them taut with manias -Hogan's is for money, Josie's for sex, Jim's for liquor-then lets them slack with remorse. Hogan tells Josie that their landlord is going to sell the farm out from under them, and makes her agree to a shotgun plot: she will get Jim drunk, lure him to bed, and keep him there till her father appears with witnesses. Josie reneges on the scheme when she finds 1) that her father has lied about the farm, 2) that in Jim's life there is room for only...
...marshal is dead five minutes after Miller gets off the noon train. Left high & dry in a town paralyzed by fear and morally bankrupt, the sweating marshal has to face Miller and three of his fellow desperadoes alone. Around this dramatic situation is built that Hollywood rarity: a taut and sense-making horse opera that deserves to rank with Stagecoach and The Gunfighter as one of the best westerns ever made...