Word: taut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quickly approaching middle age. We see the tension that propels the desperate Dorsey through all his relationships. Unwilling to conform to other people's ideas, he can't take criticism and rubs his colleagues and friends the wrong way Hoffman shows Dorsey's brittle talent in every detailed highly taut motion. Basically a failure, Dorsey frantically waits tables, instructs a fledgling group of actors, and fights with an agent who can get him any acting stints. Yet glittering of charm he behind the rigid actor as he goes throughout his hectic existence...
...showdown at last week's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna was taut and grim. At one of the long rectangular tables sat Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the elegantly groomed Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia. At another, roughhewn and tieless, was Seyyed Mohammad Gharazi of Iran. The issue before them was the control of OPEC itself. The result: a draw that deepened the most severe crisis in OPEC'S 22-year history and raised doubts about whether the organization can ever function as an effective cartel...
Roses In December (PBS). A taut documentary by Ana Carrigan and Bernard Stone about the killing of Jean Donovan, a lay missionary who worked with the Maryknoll nuns in El Salvador. An exemplary piece of humane film making that avoided political sentimentality and glib answers...
...Jersey Governor Thomas Kean won office last year partly on a promise to cut taxes. He may not be able to deliver. State legislators are already predicting a $50 million shortfall in this year's taut $6.2 billion budget; some think the deficit will be much worse. Says State Treasurer Kenneth Biederman: "We are not seeing a recovery in terms of revenues. I do not know of any state that is." Last week Kean said he was considering drastic action. For this staunch backer of Reaganomics, that probably means a tax hike...
...inexplicable bouts of incest before being reclaimed by the jungle. When the beautiful and maddeningly virtuous Remedies Buendia is suddenly levitated heavenward while folding bedclothes, her sister-in-law merely grumbles that the sheets, which also rose, are lost forever. Central to all this is a compression of time, taut with comic invention, in which old tales and contemporary terrors are joined. The opening sentence of Solitude is typical: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover...