Word: tautly
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Trillin speaks with a low and calm voice; he is not writing about an abstract Negro on a magazine cover who stands firmly, muscles taut, eyes forward. Underneath the placid prose is another figure, the intelligent Southern Negro, who, unlike his contemporaries from the North, cannot go home to Boston, New York, or Springfield after his year of working in the South is over...
Echo II is expected to stay up for three years, will be clearly visible above the horizon at sunset and sunrise. A passive communications satellite that will bounce radio signals off its taut surface, Echo II also reflects the first practical attempt at U.S.-Soviet space cooperation. By agreement with Moscow, facsimile picture, voice and code signals will be transmitted soon by means of huge antennas at observatories in Russia and England...
...best material in the Advocate is that which is most simple stylistically. Frederick Fields' taut etching of a squalid beat marriage-of-convenience that's lost its charm, has an arresting present-tense immediacy...
...credentials for becoming a defector to the East. In private, he begins creating the character he is about to play, a projection of his own personality that must, nevertheless, be proof against self-betrayal by a natural impulse, a personal habit. Grafting a novelist's perceptions to the taut skills of a suspense-tale writer, Le Carré slowly reveals that Leamas' superiors were right-he is literally sick to death of spying...
KNIFE IN THE WATER. Aboard a sloop go two bristling males, one with a knife, one with a wife-and Director Roman Polanski runs a taut ship in this first-rate thriller from Poland...