Word: taut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crushed Argument. There are other Bobbys within that slim, taut, toothy exterior. If Michael Harrington discovered America's poor, Kennedy adopted them ?not only in the urban ghettos, where the votes are, but also in the shacks of grape pickers, in the hillbilly hollers, along the rutted tobacco roads. He can communicate with the disinherited as few others of his race or rank are able to do. He can maul a William Manchester, then have the author serve as honorary chairman of a Kennedy for President club. He can be morose or merry, expansive or petty, merciless or magnanimous?...
...When the crowds are not attempting to steal his clothing, he will often take off his jacket and roll up his sleeves before talking. He shoots statistics that occasionally misinform but more often impress. His gestures jab and chop; sometimes his hands and lips betray in little movements the taut nerves within...
...those of any fellow Fauve, including Matisse, Braque or Derain. Two dozen of these early paintings recently gathered together for an exhibit by Manhattan Dealer Klaus Perls showed the public what had rarely been seen by any but a few diligent art historians: Vlaminck's early work, taut with a passionate precision, is the finest of his career (see color...
Scramble snapped with gaiety and humor, dominated by Cunningham him self, who looked like a king-sized elf swiveting in a high wind - and by the taut, controlled eroticism of his beautiful leading dancer, Carolyn Brown...
...Navy officer (Henry Fonda), who has recently lost his wife, returns to shore duty to take care of his ten momless moppets. Trying to run a family like a taut ship, he first finds the kids mutinous-just like Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music. But then, shopping at a supermarket, he runs into an attractive widow (Lucille Ball). She too is a casualty of-and contributor to-the population explosion, with eight unmanageable offspring...