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...year, you, a particle accreted on that great shimmering crystal, may hear that particles with whom you earlier collided belong or will belong to Clubs (mysterious conches, which, held to the ear, merely roar). And there will be the silent, aquiline faces, each sandwiched between a taut tie and impeccable hair, that pass you ghostlike on the entry stairs, day after day after...
DYLAN. Alec Guinness probes the special hell in which Dylan Thomas found himself. His brilliant performance is moody, taut with rage and sometimes bright with humor...
...graduates cramming for next month's California bar exam-a three-day inquisition spanning 16 subjects, some of them not taught in top law schools. The ten-man Wicks faculty claims to cover the equivalent of an entire law-school year in eleven taut weeks, during which students plod through 50 lbs. of course outlines. In addition to these labors, worried crammers often spend Sunday supplementing Wicks with a $125 exam-writing course run by a Los Angeles lawyer named Beverly Rubens, who soothes her charges by chirping that after they pass the exam, "you'll have your...
...NIGHT WATCH. In this taut French thriller, five criminals trying to tunnel out of a Paris prison learn that a man can scratch and claw his way to freedom from everything but himself...
...across the cavernous main stage, dresses them in sumptuous costumes, mixes them together in mob scenes and battles, and supplements it all with a broad range of lighting and sound effects. But if his effort is ambitious, the result is at best uneven; Seltzer's Caesar is at times taut, at times grotesque, most often flat...