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...aides' advice. White reports that the Republican nominee decided he had to take on Carter in mid-October, after the two standard-bearers appeared at an Alfred E. Smith dinner in New York. At that bipartisan function, Reagan, whose address was typically graceful, found himself astonished at Carter's taut, partisan remarks...
...members of the Industrial Workers of the World and a handful of Hitler Youth. On the way, Flanagan's Run captures the masochistic ecstasy of long-distance running. No one who runs, walks or just sits in an armchair and reads will fail to cross McNab's taut finish line...
...would be difficult to overpraise the one-man magnetic field that is Mokae's Sam, or the audacious emotional tightrope walking that Price does with Hally, or the unyielding, unquestioning goodness that Glover puts into Willie. A taut grace governs all under Fugard's flawless direction. The final scene will not leave the mind's lens. Willie shoots his carfare money into a jukebox. Lena Home chants the lyrics of Little Man, You ve Had a Busy Day. The two men take each other's arms and glide across the stage in the manner of Rogers...
DIED. W.R. Burnett, 82, writer of 34 taut novels (Little Caesar, The Asphalt Jungle, The Dark Command), many of which he then honed into classic screenplays; in Santa Monica, Calif. A taste of Chicago-during the '20s gave Burnett a gritty sensibility that marked his work over half a century and provided memorable roles to such tough-guy stars as Humphrey Bogart (High Sierra) and Alan Ladd (This Gun for Hire). Not long ago, he observed of life: "You're going to have trouble and you die-that much you know. And there's not much else...
Feliks, the son of a poor country priest elects to assassinate Prince Orlov. The "anarchist chappie," as he is called, moves close to his prey by captivating the susceptible Lady Charlotte, the earl's young daughter. Follett makes good use of a taut if predictable double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively...