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...Natalie Wood's daughter) as a bored teen lured by a handsome Chicano's threat and thrill. Confessions of a Sorority Girl uncovers the black-satin double-dealing of a teen queen spurned. Girls in Prison, with a script co-written by raw-meat auteur Sam Fuller, is a taut, tart fable of betrayal in stir and out -- there's no difference, ladies...
However, the Eagles found a new offensive wind in the second half and turned the game into a taut, 15-14 showdown. But the game turned on a blundered BC penalty with seven minutes to play in the game, and the Crimson held one-point win and the championship...
...myself narrating--no, animating--a "Sick and Twisted" flick with each explosion of sound. At times I wasn't sure if I was playing or if I was just along for the ride. My fingers flew up and down the length of the horn; my lips were tense and taut at one turn and lovingly loose at the next; my throat was opening and closing at the will of the horn; and my tongue had a life...
Tracy looked sharp himself ("I saw the puck really well tonight," he said), but after much of a taut third period he was beaten first on Ranaldi's rebound conversion at the 15:31 mark--Princeton's third power play goal on seven chances...
American childhood sometimes emits a note that is painfully clear and haunted. It vibrates through a taut wire of memory from a long way off, even from the opposite end of a child's life. This is not sentimental music. The sound issues from the child as involuntary realist, the one who sees with defenseless clarity and transmits without melodrama or calculation. That child's transparency, a kind of wonder, can break the heart...