Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of general var like a chicken with its head cut off. The brain could be destroyed and the nervous system severed. Then the military muscles would just jerk in uncontrolled spasms." To hold the chicken together, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has spent several hundred million dollars toward a taut new National Military Command System. It should keep a nervous G.I. in Europe from firing his atomic bazooka in the dark of night, or prevent a B-52 crew from striking Russia because of a communications breakdown. Much of NMCS, as Pentagonians discreetly call the system, is secret...
...name of unmitigated sex. Yet he is also hailed as the Columbus of the unconscious who discovered a new world in the depths of the human mind. Which Freud is the real Freud-Bluebeard or Columbus? Director John Huston plumps for Columbus, and he tells why in this taut intellectual thriller...
...signed for six new pictures, to be made over the next two years. He opens soon as an Arab chieftain in the much-awaited Lawrence of Arabia. He is also Dino de Laurentiis' Barabbas, giving a taut, disciplined, and sometimes moving performance as the man whose life was spared when Christ died. Requiem for a Heavyweight, completed earlier this year but just released by Producer David Susskind in a maneuver aimed at the Academy Awards, is probably Quinn's best picture. As a punched-out prizefighter, croaking in the high voice of a man who has taken...
...console controllers are the end men in a taut chain of command that can send the missiles rocketing toward preplanned targets at 15,000 m.p.h. The control officers do not know where their birds are going-but they will push the buttons...
...Concrete Jungle. This strange, taut, jagged British crime movie crackles with the excitement of a cool jazz score and U.S.-born Director Joseph Losey's subtle vision of crime and the criminal...