Word: tautly
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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 smothering care...
...Paris about Nikita Khrushchev's torpedoing of the conference, Writer Christopher had put the finishing touches on a cover story about the summit. When the blowup came, he had to pull his story apart and put it together again to assess and analyze the new situation, all under taut deadline pressure. Thirty-six hours later he was at work on a new cover story-this week's on Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Y. Malinovsky...
After months of turning a leaf, a stone, the President's quest took him to Paris last week and what he had hoped was the unfound door. In the cabinet room of the Elysée Palace, he sat silent, his facial muscles taut, red splotches of anger flashing in his face, as Nikita Khrushchev slammed shut the door in his rage. Three hours later, Ike walked from the room. "For the first time since I gave up smoking," he said, "I wanted a cigarette just to give myself something to do." In the privacy of the U.S. embassy...
...perhaps best known-his Third Symphony (1947), which won the New York Music Critics' Circle Award in the season of its première. In that fine work Riegger is at his abrasive best, putting night-wailing strings against the muscularly marching brasses in an effect that is taut, menacing and powerfully moving...
Toys in the Attic. Playwright Lillian Hellman's taut, powerful drama about a weak ne'er-do-well's sudden wealth and the anguish this brings to the women who depend on his dependence on them. Jason Robards Jr. heads a fine cast...