Word: taut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vivid picture of what he claims happened that night. He dramatically raised his hand in the defensive stance he says Tarnower used when Harris pointed the gun at him. When the judge sustained an objection by Aurnou that Bolen's version went beyond the evidence presented, the taut Harris applauded until her body shook...
...daydreams of The Maltese Falcon and Captain Blood. He picks up a couple of girls. Then, in an inexplicable error, he makes off with a suitcase of cash he was supposed to deliver to his associates and is on the lam. Gifford is a terrific storyteller, and his taut tale grips with all the intensity of the most unabashedly commercial thrillers...
...first large-scale colonial conflict (the Boer War) and its most recent (Viet Nam). It derives from that analogy an immediacy that one does not often find in films set in the dimming past. But there is a larger success: this very traditional-looking film is dramatically taut, full of strongly developed characters who never deteriorate into good-guy, bad-guy spokesmanship. There is no doubt that the soldiers committed the crimes with which they are charged. But their defense attorney (well played by Jack Thompson) argues that it is both a miscarriage of justice and an act of hypocrisy...
...floor and spreads her denim-clad legs wider than a 21-in. television screen, the teen-age temptress murmurs huskily, "You know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." Then Photographer Richard Avedon's lens zooms in to linger on Actress-Model Brooke Shields' taut jeans...
Ellen Burstyn is called upon to cover a physically and emotionally broad range of acting. While empathetically assuming the pain of an invalid she goes through an impressive series of facial and bodily contortions. Ordinarily possessed of a mild countenance with round, gentle features, her face can grow taut with anger or sadness...