Word: taut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nice looking fellow. Even features, crinkly eyes, a ready smile, muscles taut from gym work, autumnal hair with a fine early frost. He could be a cousin of his fellow Rocky Mountain resident Robert Redford. Then look closer and find a superhero's face as it might have been drawn by Wallace Wood for a Mad comic- book parody. The jawline, a shade too prominent, entertains the rumor of buffoonery. The smile is one of unwarranted self-assurance. His eye squint seems not to have registered that the world sees him differently: as a preening oaf. With every gesture...
...their letters -- a burst from Nigel, a counterburst from Adam -- is the British equivalent of the nautical exchanges between William F. Buckley Jr. and his son Christopher. And despite his occasional flaws, Adam remains a visitor to watch. In Texas he describes a horse proceeding with a "constant feather-taut agility, like a clever man arguing . . . the uninterrupted ease of something done right." Trust young Nicolson to discover a natural wonder: a champion mare that precisely mimics its British spectator...
Instead of the diplomatic tone of most cover letters, the letters of the three entries state their wishes candidly. "If you have even an ounce of compassion in your taut, aerobically perfect body, you will condescend to grant me an interview on one of the 435 closed schedule positions for Assistant to Mail Clerk," began the letter of first prize winner Ladd K. Biro...
...PRICE (syndicated). A wealthy businessman's wife and stepdaughter are kidnaped by Irish terrorists in this taut and intricate thriller imported from Britain's Channel...
...series of ten to 15 shots. Used primarily to combat forehead furrows and the lines that extend from the nose to the lips, collagen fills in the space behind and around wrinkles and sags, much like the way air fills a balloon and makes its skin grow taut. The procedure, which stings slightly and can leave the face red for about a day, takes 15 min. to half an hour and can be completed during a lunch hour. "The nice thing about collagen is that the individual doesn't have any telltale signs," says Dr. Frederick Grazer, a plastic surgeon...