Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most exciting female golfer in the world, she was last year's leading money winner (with a record $26,760) on the women's tour, has been a topflight pro ever since she graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from the University of Texas in 1950. Taut and moody on the golf course, Betsy lugs a portable phonograph with her on the tour, relaxes between rounds with Wagnerian opera. This season, Betsy had been in a frustrating slump, had won only two major tournaments prior to the Open, and had watched her earnings drop...
Weaver uses his hands as intelligently and skillfully as he does his face and voice. It is in their taut anguish that we perceive his double burden of worry about his kingdom and his son and it is the slow pounding with clenched fist that tells us what his apoplexy means to him, dying still worried about Hal's fitness for the throne. His performance moves me to hope, as Caldwell Titcomb did last week after Carnovsky's Prospero, that Weaver will have a chance to play Lear...
...says the author, is tell of "a yellow Sunday in the last days of a good spring, while . . . pale threads, drawn out from dark hidden places, began to be wound inexorably together . . . until there had been wrought, out of such tenuous white and fleeting things, a taut tripwire for the souls of men, destined, before its mindless work was done, to bring many tall sure riders down to earth, and below.'' Burdened with such prose, the skeleton of a good shoot-em-up also comes rattling to earth-and below...
...third round, Souchak began to suffer. Startled by the sudden sound of a spectator's camera, he drove out-of-bounds on the 18th, and smiled no more. Still, going into the final round, he had what seemed a safe, two-stroke lead on the field. Taut with frustration, Arnold Palmer was still floundering back in 15th place, a full seven strokes behind Souchak...
Toys in the Attic. The women in a family discover an unpleasant fact of life in Lillian Hellman's taut drama: when their one man gets rich, he no longer needs their mothering care...