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...incapable of being chairborne for very long. The way to go any place, as far as the President is concerned, is by air; he was trained to fly by the U.S. Air Force, and he reaches for the controls of an aircraft like oth er taut executives reach for a golf club...
till the end rimes in the taut string with the sending...
From Chuck Berry, again appropriately, to Terry Reid, the latest staggering import from England. At 19 Reid runs one of the most well-honed combos around: drums, organ and himself singer-guitarist. His group's polished, gleaming-hard sound has all the taut excitement that one associates with the best rock. In a sense Terry Reid, with his towering individual talent for arranging and composing and leading, is very much a Chuck Berry figure. He has the same inventive rock 'n' roll ear, the ability to make original driving music out of the simplest basic elements, all presented...
Graebner opened the Challenge Round in Adelaide, Australia, last week on a chilly, gusty day. Normally as taut as the gut strings in his racket, he played confidently, looking to the sidelines now and then for reassurance from Dell. At every crucial point, Dell leaned forward in his chair and turned the palm of his hand downward. Meaning: cool it, baby. Though he started haltingly, Graebner soon found his booming serve and defeated Australian Bill Bow-rey 8-10, 6-4, 8-6, 3-6, 6-1. Ashe, as calm and poised as a man taking his morning constitutional, kept...
...superb New York production of 1950, Alec Guinness brought an aura of mystery and suave authority to the part of Harcourt-Reilly, and Irene Worth as Celia evoked a taut sense of spiritual crisis. Without their skills, the confessional-psychiatric dialogue, which sends Celia off to her eventual anthill, sounds surprisingly specious and unconvincing. Suddenly more awkward than intriguing are Eliot's pomposities, like the stilted toast that the three Guardians intone to the future of their charges. And it no longer seems much fun to speculate on the writer's half-veiled allusions (do a pair...