Word: taut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ships, 200 planes and 30,000 men roamed a million square miles to remind friendly and sometimes faltering governments that U.S. power was close at hand. At the same time, the Sixth Fleet under Anderson often served as a huge floating embassy of good will. His sailors were under taut control ashore: "A drunken liberty is a wasted liberty." Anderson sent high officers in civvies to police the S.P.s who were supposed to police the sailors, cut the fleet's VD rate in half partly by sending medics to feed anti-VD pills to prostitutes. A Roman Catholic...
...Difference. A taut, nervous player who has been in and out of trouble ever since he got to the majors in 1952, the same year he spent two months in a mental institution, Piersall is still getting into scrapes. He capers on the field, spats with Cleveland sportswriters, makes faces and occasionally spits when the fans ride him. But he has been a model of gentlemanly deportment compared to last year, when he was thumbed from seven games, had the league in an uproar over such antics as heaving an orange and a baseball (both missed) at Bill Veeck...
...performed at Florence's annual Maggio Musicale, The Merchant was a taut and impressive work. Composer Castelnuovo-Tedesco had so skillfully stitched music to text that every word rang with its original clarity. The opera, like much of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's work, was elegantly orchestrated, marked by sweeping vocal lines and shimmering lyric passages that echoed his admiration for Puccini. Although the Italian lines fell strangely on some ears ("Non ha un ebreo occhi?"-Hath not a Jew eyes?), the audience gave Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Merchant 15 echoing curtain calls...
...Sides in the old days. Put on wax in the early '20s, these performances are a reminder that the King of the Kings was the late Clarinetist Leon Rappolo, whose solos in such numbers as Tiger Rag and the title song (also known as Jazzin' Babies) are taut as a bent...
...weakness in the orchestra was forgotten on opening night in the performances of Erik Bruhn and Oklahoma-born Maria Tallchief. Appearing in the lead roles in Miss Julie, based on the theme of Strindberg's chilling play, they gave one of modern ballet's truly electric performances-taut, technically polished, tingling with passion. The following evening, in the more elegant climate of Swan Lake, they were equally convincing, and had critics groping for comparisons with such a legendary dancing pair as Nijinsky and Karsavina...