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...unstick the hull from the seabed. It was a nerve-racking process. The submarine's dead weight of at least 4,000 tons taxed even Glomar Explorer's powerful winches. The ship shuddered and reverberated with the protesting scream of straining electric engines and the scrape of taut steel cables...
...telling moment when human interaction is at its most explicit. Sometimes the result is too neat--one photograph is made by the simple gimmick of two men frozen in the similar act of pointing at the same unseen object. Others strike to the heart of interrelationships. One features the taut confrontation of mother and son on a city street. The kid's whining defiance and his mother's tired implorings cry out from the surface of the page. Only two photographers in the book are not interested in the instantaneousness of the present, Nancy Rexroth and Wehdy Snyder-MacNeil. Rexroth...
...Leok New, Another infiller, by Nichoias Roeg who made Performance, and who makes this picture so taut with surface brilliance that it's one of the most stunning visual experiences around--reality has shifted quietly into upside down by the time you leave the theatre People argue a lot about whether there's anything beneath the glaze, but the story in amazing and the ending is right up there with Well Until Dark for hop-out-of your beat cardiac arrests...
...Trade Reform Act, after two years of haggling and deliberation, marked a rare moment when Congress not only dictated U.S. foreign policy but also tried to determine the domestic policy of another country. During its two-year peregrination to passage, the bill gave rise to some strange alliances and taut confrontations. Congressional conservatives opposing trade with Russia joined with liberals concerned with human rights and the AFL-CIO, which feared the loss of American jobs. U.S. Jewish organizations were firmly ranged against the actions of a Jewish Secretary of State. Two Presidents vied for power with a Senator...
...quality of the acting varies from the high level of Rebecca Goldman's taut portrayal of the schizophrenic Georgina and Ed Baran's glassy-eyed baby-talking Commodore to the awkward self-consciousness of some of the bit players. Demetrious Athens plays a detached and rather pedantic Basho and Rick Hagan, as Kiro, and Thomas Nolan, as Shogo, both have a lot of stage presence but their speaking voices lack variety of intonation...