Word: tightly
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Visitors to Houghton's Reading Room may request any book in the entire collection for closer inspection. But security is tight-not even pens are allowed in the Reading Room-and most of the other libraries follow the same procedure...
Like Houghton, the Kress Library is humidity controlled with special temperature gauges for the preservation of the Business School's rare books. Like Houghton, this library is one of the world's most famous, although it is seldom appreciated, and security is tight at Kress as well...
Dropping back shorter and throwing quicker this year, unsinkable Quarterback Jim Plunkett has made Marcus Allen the handiest pass catcher among running backs and Todd Christensen the most prolific receiver of all others in the league. Christensen's 92 receptions are the record for a tight end. A failed Dallas Cowboy runner, who stubbornly still wears a backfield number, 46, Christensen is given to writing and quoting poetry. Says Plunkett, 36: "It's fun to play with the Raiders because everyone is encouraged to be himself...
When the San Francisco Giants play in windy Candlestick Park, a man with owlish spectacles, tight lips, an aquiline nose and a stern gaze usually sits in a front-row seat, 70 ft. from home plate. Arthur Rock, 57, has been a Giants fan for 25 years, watching batters try to sort curve balls from sliders and change-ups from screwballs. Since the late 1950s. Rock has been carefully scrutinizing pitches of another kind-start-up bids by young technology companies-and when he goes for one of these, he rarely misses. Says San Francisco Venture Capitalist Thomas Perkins: "Arthur...
...Reynolds. His huge, ambitious history painting, Watson and the Shark, 1778, is a beloved American classic thanks to, not in spite of, its earnest potpourri of quotations from Titian, Raphael, the Borghese Gladiator and the Laocoon. But at the level of the portrait he was exact and forceful. The tight, heavy faces, didactic hands and subtly registered expressions of Copley's New Englanders read like indexes of American character, and his painting of Thomas and Sarah Mifflin (1773) is one of the great 18th century images of the enlightened bourgeois...