Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agent of their anxiety-Matty might seem one more example of moviemaker misogyny hiding behind the imperatives of the thriller genre. She surely is a metaphor for the seductive, destructive power of ambition. But she is also the one figure of reckless imagination. Smoothly and confidently, she guides the taut mechanism of the movie's plot. She creates between herself and Ned a sexual attraction that erases the past and suggests terrible new options. And she knows, as a young woman whose Midwestern memories are as sordid as her Palm Beach present is posh, that she must sweat...
...brilliant palette of Dacron sail stands taut in the breeze, while below it the bright twin pontoons slice the sea into a foaming, sun-dazzled wake. As the breeze quickens, one of the pontoons flies free of the water, bringing whoops of excitement from the boat's two occupants...
Spinning as swiftly as a bicycle wheel, Barnet Kellman's direction unerringly maintains the taut tempo of the work. The W.P.A. (Workshop of the Players Art) Theater has brought us, in Wade, a bona fide playwrighting find...
...Arizona, lawyers described her as a painstakingly careful attorney and a judge who ran her courtroom with taut discipline and a clear disdain for lawyers who had not done their homework. "She handled her work with a certain meticulousness, an eye for legal detail," recalled Phoenix Lawyer John Frank. Added John McGowan, another Phoenix attorney: "She's a very conscientious, very careful lawyer." Some defense lawyers, however, found O'Connor's strict demeanor on the bench so intimidating that they dubbed her "the bitch queen...
...produced in New York in 1960 when British Playwright Delaney was 21. Then, the play seemed to belong to the "kitchen sink" school of regurgitative grievances-today, it celebrates spunk. This revival, which off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater has transferred intact to Broadway's Century Theater, is taut, vital, moving and funny. An admirable cast threads reality through the needle's eye of truth...