Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Concrete Jungle is a strange, taut, jagged British crime movie. Its cool, boppy jazz score composed by Johnny Dankworth surcharges the action, and at the same time keeps saying, with ironic nonchalance, "Tomorrow we die." Robert Krasker's camera work is broodingly desolate outdoors, stiflingly claustrophobic indoors, emphasizing always the jumpy, fragmented quality of modern existence...
...house and arrested him. Last week he was free on bail, but his empire had collapsed, and he was under indictment on charges of fraud and theft. West Texas was swarming with investigators trying to untangle a web of deceit, fraud and corruption that stretched the 1,500 taut miles to Washington. One major discovery about Billie Sol was that the guesses about the size of his fortune had been fantastically inaccurate; far from being worth $150 million, or even $1 million, he was something like $12 million in the hole...
...Taut Prose. But in spite of popular taste, prose writing was revamped in the North by men who had fought in the war. The battle memoirs of Sherman and Grant, "perfect in concision and clear ness," changed the "clogged and viscous prose" of the prewar days. In the heat of the war these commanders had no time for overblown eloquence. "Their role is to convince and direct," writes Wilson...
...This is the language of responsibility." They handed down to the 20th century a lean, taut prose that reflected a cooler, grimmer appraisal of life. "I believe that force is the ultima ratio" wrote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who fought in the war for three years and was almost killed, "and between two groups that want to make inconsistent kinds of world I see no remedy except force." After weaving his way through these Civil War writings, on which he has worked for nearly 15 years. Critic Wilson seems to take a view of the war as bleak as Holmes...