Word: tautly
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About half the captions resemble this one in that you need no knowledge of French to appreciate them. But such Gallicisms as "taut is, ant mieux" (My aunt is so much happier since she made a telephone call") cannot be fully understood except by someone familiar enough with French to know what "taint" means...
...Practice. The theory seemed bold and simple. The complexities in carrying it out fell to a wiry, weather-beaten Air Force Lieutenant General named William E. Kepner, commander in chief of Alaska (CINCAL). Bill Kepner ran his taut command from a birch-walled office on the first floor of a thick, concrete command center at Anchorage. Around town it was known as "The Kremlin," much to his distaste ("There is nothing Russian in my command; I know of no Kremlin in it," says he gruffly...
This forgetfulness is changing talented Author Mary McCarthy from a sharp satirist into a hollow groaner. Taut little early McCarthy opuses such as The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt and Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man would never have let a female character get away with a remark like "Ah, you hate it because it is mine. You would like to see it all go to ruin." Still less could an earlier McCarthy character have murmured to herself, "She would leave him, she thought, as soon as the petunias had bloomed." But The Weeds, first...
Under the searching eye of the television camera, and compressed into an hour's playing time, the TV Othello became a taut, single-minded study of the crack-up of the tormented Moor (played by Britain's Torin Thatcher) under the evil persistence of lago (Alfred Ryder). Producer Fred Coe managed to fill, but not clutter, the TV screen with a swirl of movement, created a sense of space by letting his cameras probe down colonnaded halls and into drapery-hung apartments...
...fearing Mississippi farmer is seized by temptation and driven to murder; a taut little novel of crime & passion (TIME, July...