Word: taut
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...fact, Le Monde has no particular owner; it has 700 of them. Since 1951 the daily has been owned by its employees, though they do not set the paper's policy. Beuve-Méry, sometimes referred to by staffers as "God," ran a taut one-man editorial operation for 25 years before handing over the reins in 1969 to his hand-chosen successor, Fauvet. Under Fauvet, Le Monde moved perceptibly left, supporting Socialist Party Leader François Mitterrand in the 1974 presidential election won by center-right Candidate Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and showing sympathy for the brutal Cambodian...
...Imagine an endless prizefight with the world champ, as you wait, with muscles taut, ready to nail him when he drops his guard for the flash of an eye. Then you have a mini-idea of what it was like trying to keep Pablo Picasso in your range finder for a single...
...details of that route: the heavy drinking at 15, the heroin addiction at 25, the two broken marriages, the ten years in hospitals, prisons and other institutions, the illness and waste and frequent despair. But they could see some of its ravages in Pepper's face, which was taut and sallow under his skullcap haircut, almost a death mask. And they could hear some of its pain in the soulful, impassioned solos that Pepper poured out when he picked up his alto...
...exception is Sandy (Shelby Brammer), an innocent of 20, who trustingly leaves the compound with an Arab boy. She is raped and sodomized, detonating the melodramatic climax of the play. For Andrew (Joseph Daly), a doctor, and his taut, prim and principled wife Eunice (Mila Burnette), sex is parsed in the past tense. Andrew does make a halfhearted pass at Sandy, but one feels that it is intercepted by his conscience. Martin (Stephen D. Newman), a bisexual member of the diplomatic corps who vastly prefers men, delivers his sardonic lines with Wildean brio. He describes his forays among the local...
...goal, Gillies' second of the playoffs, stunned the Boston Garden crowd and ended a taut, tension-wracked contest that marked the first postseason meeting ever between the two clubs...