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...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...
...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...
...almost languid, its transitions smoother, the sense of muscular tension and vigor less commanding. But it is still magnificent, even in comparison with the other sculptures at the show; among these is a bronze horse's head from the Florence Archaeological Museum which, with its flaring, taut musculature, rhythmic neck folds and elegantly articulated mane, is the very essence of forceful Hellenistic realism...
...side stands Amy Benesch as Jean, a bitchy schoolmarm who can't hide her horniness or her contempt for men. A female chauvinist, Joan has less appeal than Bernie because she lacks a sense of humor about life in the sink. She exists as Deborah's lampshade, a taut mask on a bulb of sexual freedom...
...Afghanistan and Iran incidents, the ten-term Congressman consistently decries American dependence on foreign oil. "We've been literally immobilized by the fear that our oil could be shut off," Anderson--who advocates increased research on solar power--told a suburban Boston audience last week. "A lean, taut budget," one that will require states and cities to "forego for a year or two" some federally funded programs, is Anderson's remedy for an economy stretched thin by inflation...