Word: tautness
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...women's final on Saturday had a look that observers of the men's game found familiar: a taut, defensive contest that tightens leg muscles, turns feet into anchors and transforms a 116-yd. by 72-yd. field into a postage stamp. At their own end, the Americans completely snuffed out the Chinese offense, allowing scoring star Sun Wen precious little room to maneuver. At midfield, Michelle Akers, a 33-year-old orthopedic disaster, made her last World Cup game a memorable one. On defense, she owned the air, hurling herself at anything round that moved--a recklessness that would...
...that her studio albums only hint at. From her biggest album, 1997's Surfacing, the ode to love gone bad, Do What You Have to Do (which popped up in the Starr report when a certain intern's jottings to the President cited it as her fave), becomes a taut wire of despair as its restless, searching piano line plays off the icy clarity of her lyrics: "What ravages of spirit conjured/ this tempestuous rage/ created you a monster/ broken by the rules of love...
Brendel's playing is distinguished by its heightened intellectual and emotional intensity, by his ability to energize details while sustaining taut lines, by his infallible grasp of musical architecture and by his extraordinary empathy with composers. His performances often achieve a sense of inevitability. Surely, a listener feels, this is what the composer intended...
...influence of the herbal Viagra). Dominic West, on the other hand, needs no potion, quickening the movie's pulse with his smoldering eyes and nudist tendencies. Midsummer Night's magic does well by all the aging cast members, making Stanley Tucci and Rupert Everet's oft-displayed biceps taut and virile as they lounge about, toying with the fate of their younger coactors. Pfeiffer tops the pantheon, lathered up with glitter and seemingly enchanted by the budding potpourri in her hair...
...Beautiful will never,ever win Best Picture. Why? Because the Academy iswildly and unabashedly xenophobic. They don't evenlike to give awards to British films, and at leastthey're in English! Only once before, in 1969, wasa foreign film nominated for both Best Picture andForeign Film--Costa-Gavras' taut politicalthriller Z. The movie was great but of course tookBest Foreign Film honors rather than Best Picture.Benigni's film, too, is a very good one and willbe duly rewarded in the same manner...