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Word: tight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Punji sticks are bamboo shoots whittled at the end to a point, and dipped in cow shit, and stuck into the ground on a tight spring, and covered with a vine and leaves. When you trip the vine the stick impales you and infects the wound. They don't have it in boot camp." He twisted his smile, turned his head slowly back toward the windshield and started mumbling a song...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...When you reach that pumped-up feeling, and everything's tight. The tightness of the muscle, and the pump, means that you have trained well and that it will get bigger...There's a certain high to the experience in the gymnasium, it's the same high as you would experience when you come when you have sex...It's like--the ultimate. The training is like leading up to the pump and sex is like leading up to coming." Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...When you reach that pumped-up feeling, and everything's tight. The tightness of the muscle, and the pump, means that you have trained well and that it will get bigger...There's a certain high to the experience in the gymnasium, it's the same high as you would experience when you come when you have sex...It's like--the ultimate. The training is like leading up to the pump and sex is like leading up to coming...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...house has no study or office, but at least it has adequate closet space. There is a fur and jewels safe, and plenty of drawers for her status jeans (which come with this warning: "for tight-fitting fashions, especially pants, ask an adult for some baby powder and rub it on doll's legs before slipping on clothes.") There are even hangers for superstar Barbie's feather boa and disco dresses...

Author: By Lizzie Leiman, | Title: Barbie Comes of Age | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...unnecessary detail and background from Gorman's novel; his direction concentrates on the characters' feelings above all else. Music is never used to heighten a scene, and the camera moves only when the actors' wanderings force it to do so. Benton's focus is so tight that Kramer shows a far more domestic and grittier view of Manhattan than the Allen and Mazursky films. The cinematographer is Nestor Almendros, a frequent collaborator of François Truffaut's and Eric Rohmer's and a brilliant portraitist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Grownups, A Child, Divorce, And Tears | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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