Word: taut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scandal off onto the shoulders of a young dean, he catches dialogue which seems not so much an artistic invention as an overheard invasion of privacy. An early scene in Southampton, when Elizabeth's mother politely grills her daughter's not-quite-acceptable suitor at dinner is taut with O'Hara's unique ear for innuendo and eye for man's decorous inhumanity...
Stoumen picked Marlene Dietrich to narrate the film and the choice is both daring and appropriate. Her taut Teutonic phrasing, with its Dietrichy ws for rs, never lets the listener forget that a German is telling the story of Germany's shame. "How did it happen in this lovely land?" she asks. Stoumen shows Hitler in his schoolboy days, as a young corporal during World War I. The viewer gets a look at Hitler's competent paintings and drawings (all without a single human figure). Stoumen's cleverest stroke is the use of Kaulbach's illustrations...
...surgeon, there remains a major repair job. For structural support and to diminish the size of the opening, he builds a latticework of sutures across the win dow, covering them with strong connective tissue (fascia) from an ox. After much meticulous suturing, the wound has a taut look before the skin is closed...
Getting up-to-date puts a strain on that slightly oldfangled institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, and the strain shows like a taut cable in its 28th Biennial Exhibition. The manner of hanging the show is selfconscious: all the stripes in one room, all the figures in another, all the old auto parts and welded scrap metal in a third. The 145 paintings, chosen from among more than 4,000 submitted as colored slides, display a comic propensity for dated titles: November 25th, July III, 23 September 1959, July 20, '61, Between March and April. Even...
...Balcony, about Nefertiti and the Pharaoh Ikhnaton; The Judges of the Secret Court, about the events subsequent to Lincoln's assassination; and most recently, A Dancer in Darkness, a superbly gory retelling of the legend of the Duchess of Amalfi. Usually his books are brief and taut, and he is contemptuous of jumbo novels "for women who lie on sofas all day." But his best book, he feels, is a long novel about Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. It is called Sir William, and will be published in England by Faber & Faber. Stacton's U.S. sales have been...