Word: tautly
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...best and most genuine pieces in the show are the small drawings, perhaps because they don't try to serve any purpose beyond pleasing the eye. The taut elegance of Sadiqi Bek's Lion Tamer and the grace of Riza's A Young Man in a Blue Cloak prove that these two were artists of the first rank. And the drawings of Mu'in Musavvir, Riza's most gifted student, are delightful. His Squatting Camel is not to be missed...
...section of Charleston, that he is wearing a pair of rumpled slacks, sport shirt with tail out, and a pair of soft black moccasins that have not lately seen much spit and polish. Yet the short gray hair is still carefully combed straight back, the lean jaw still juts. Taut and fit as ever at 59, Westmoreland swims eight laps a day in good weather and is able to play golf and tennis for most of the year...
...banal; last month's attempt to describe life astride an earthquake fault in California was conveyed in words and pictures as wooden as the fatalism of the town's residents. By contrast, a report on the good life in Sweden's prisons documents in taut style that country's progressive approach to penology. This month's Smithsonian takes an engaging look at one man's determined search for the Sasquatch, an American cousin of the Abominable Snowman...
Each inflection, every pause and gesture, seems to have been measured by caliper, but this precision never be comes deadening. Instead it draws everything taut, gives an almost musical tension. The lighting, important to any movie, becomes crucial here, where the action is mostly confined to one room...
...dinner in the State Dining Room with 25 Democratic Congressmen, mostly from the South, was no smashing success either. One listener described Nixon as "taut and extremely tense, gesturing wildly." North Carolina's Ike Andrews found Nixon relaxed and jovial but the situation awkward. Said he: "We were guests in his home?it makes it difficult to ask him questions. The first question was about the Middle East, and he took 21 minutes to answer it. There were a couple more innocuous questions, then somebody said politely, 'Thank you for this pleasant evening, but most of us thought...