Word: taut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week long, as Baghdad celebrated the Iraq Republic's first anniversary, taut, tireless Premier Karim Kassem was man of the hour 24 hours a day, taking salutes at parades, laying cornerstones, playing host at enormous public receptions, receiving scores of delegations. Friday evening he orated steadily from 10 o'clock to 5 a.m. Finally on Sunday afternoon, ashen-faced with fatigue but crisp and erect as ever, Moslem Kassem strode into Baghdad's Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph...
Prokofiev's music, written in the early '205, is taut, economical and superbly dramatic, consisting of almost continuous recitative, punctuated with an occasional soaring aria. The opera reaches its vocal and dramatic climax in the Inquisition scene, in which Renata. a group of nuns and the Inquisitor weave eleven different vocal lines into a complicated polyphony, terminated by a staggering explosion of brass and cymbals...
...style may also be responsible for some of the difficulty he presents to listeners. It is taut and lean; a poem like "By Lamplight" moves along so fast that even knowing what the situation is hardly helps one keep up with it. Mr. Kunitz reads well, emphasizing the brittle sonic effects and providing real dramatic power where it is called...
...held him for 24 hours. Fatherly General Abboud, after hearing the two soldiers' complaints, dismissed his No. 2 man and appointed both Shennan and Moheiddin to places on the ruling Supreme Military Council. They did good jobs: Moheiddin as Minister of Communications; taut, lithe, Eager Beaver Shennan as Minister of Local Government. But their ambitions went farther...
Compulsion. The Leopold-Loeb case recreated in a taut, adult melodrama...