Word: tautly
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...that Americans tend to label minor have evidently taken hold, because the improvement is apparent in even boycotted company. The number of years that the women's volleyball team has stayed and played together were reflected down the stretch in a thrilling victory over China as well as a taut 12-15, 10-15, 15-5, 15-5, 15-12 comeback against Brazil, one of the singular excitements of the Games...
...trusted with his finger on the nuclear button. One significant danger of the present situation, according to an American specialist in Soviet affairs, is that the U.S. "can no longer count on measured and rational responses" from the Soviets. Says he: "There is no taut line of control in Moscow. The soft leadership situation means that we cannot extrapolate their responses from past behavior...
Much of the course's popularity stems from Gould's reputation and personal appeal. Lectures are filled with the professor's taut energy and obvious excitement for his subject and students. The historical and literary allusions and illustrations he uses make the class more than a lesson in plate tectonics or evolution. Rather, the course seems, surprisingly, to live up to its rather ambitious title...
...Princess Daisy.) The two-hour show Something About Amelia, scheduled for Jan. 9, is receiving the prudent treatment that is usually accorded "controversial" subjects. Its promotional material comes replete with warnings for parents and a scholarly bibliography. Nevertheless, despite the effluence of manufactured sanctimony, Amelia is a taut and honest, if somewhat monochromatic, treatment of a painful subject...
...nine-year veteran of TIME who specializes in business and economics stories, DeMott was particularly pleased with the assignment because it permitted him to deal with a lifelong passion. "I've been fascinated by communications ever since I was a kid with two tin cans and a taut string between them," he says. "When I was ten, I got my own $10.95 telecommunications network: two battery-powered toy telephones that a friend and I rigged between our houses." DeMott soon graduated to more complicated gadgets, setting up telegraph keys with a teen-age friend and building electronic devices from...