Word: taut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleagues' cubist ideas, soon began experimenting with painted geometric sculpture. Eventually the female superseded other subject matter. Since Laurens never used models, he was free to invent: an arm became a jai alai basket, limbs were omitted or dramatically extended. If his early cubist works were all angles, taut as strings, his later ones had the liquid rhythm of the sea. That breakthrough came in 1931, when Laurens visited the Mediterranean seacoast. From then on, his sculpture looked as if it had been tumbled in a million waves rather than shaped by a single incisive hand. Yet, though...
Early on, taut, angular editing and a brilliantly elliptical, soft-spoken narrative create some sense of frightening possibility. But, at the climactic revival scene, as Jones steps forward to shake hands with the Almightly and the band thunders out Deutschland iiber Alles, the message becomes childishly explicit-and essentially absurd...
...GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. A sprightly scenario, the taut direction of Gene Kelly, and the uncommon acting talent of Walter Matthau turn this into one of the best sex comedies of the season...
...Taut Crossbow. The Calder is not an unmitigated success, partly because it was necessary to blunt its knifelike edges with heavy reinforcements to enable it to withstand the brisk winds that blow off the St. Lawrence. It suffers, like most Expo sculpture, from comparison with the bizarre silhouettes of the pavilions. Nonetheless, most fairgoers like Calder's Man. Murmured one miniskirted coed, gazing up at it last week: "I like the strength and the way it springs up. It has power, like a human being. Flowers spring up, but not in the same...
...enlisted man's picture. In its view, World War II was a private affair in which officers were hypocritical, stupid or German, and only the dogfaced soldier was gutsy enough to be great. In this film, the lopsided interpretation works largely because of a fine cast and a taut plot that closes the credibility...