Word: tenuousness
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...conventional translator. What he has set out to do, says the author, is tell of "a yellow Sunday in the last days of a good spring, while . . . pale threads, drawn out from dark hidden places, began to be wound inexorably together . . . until there had been wrought, out of such tenuous white and fleeting things, a taut tripwire for the souls of men, destined, before its mindless work was done, to bring many tall sure riders down to earth, and below.'' Burdened with such prose, the skeleton of a good shoot-em-up also comes rattling to earth...
...never had a decent job, has always instinctively looked for the softest touch-and in his heart he knows that his own weakness has always been the enemy. His girl has walked out on him, and his best friend is stalking her. But he still has his looks, his tenuous charm. For a time it seems that his love for a nurse will pull him out of his resentment and self-pity; but she recognizes that any wife of Dick's is bound to become a mere crutch. At the end, the author unconvincingly suggests that Dick...
...strength of this tenuous evidence. Secretary Flemming decided to ban the use of stilbestrol in fattening fowl. (It will still be permitted in fattening cattle and sheep, because even FDA supersleuths have not been able to find any residue in these meats, provided that growers stop feeding the substance to the animals at least 48 hours before slaughtering.) Manufacturers agreed to stop selling stilbestrol to caponette raisers, and the farmers agreed to stop using stuff they will no ' longer be able to get. The Department of Agriculture was stuck with the job of buying up $10 million worth...
Even the conservative, exceptionally wealthy, neighboring town of Bronxville seems to have been won over to the college. Town-gown relations, tenuous at time in the past, are better now partly due to Sarah Lawrence's sharing of its auditorium and frequent invitations to Westchester residents to attend theatrical performances and other college events...
...brother Tom, try to escape their cul-de-sac, and help one another out of it, in every way they can. Uniquely, perhaps, among Tennessee Williams' major works, this one has no dominating masculine figure to bring it to an explosion of melodrama. "Because of its considerably delicate or tenuous material," the author says of it, "atmospheric touches and subtleties of direction play a particularly important part." John Hancock, who directed the current production, has worked scrupulously and to beautiful effect with everyone concerned...