Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Because the family fortune has been splintered over seven generations, he is not quite so rich as his name suggests; he says his worth is about $7 million. He lives well within his means, managing all his own investments, frugally watching the bills. His aides affectionately describe him as "tight." To rephrase Hemingway: The rich are different from you and me; they spend less money...
Even the most mild mannered of these new movies, Withnail and I, is a shock to our expectations. American literati are, after all, conditioned to share the Lake poets' faith in the restorative powers of the pastoral: the thatch tight on the cottage roof, the peat glowing on the grate, the cattle posing for a painting by Constable. The vision is especially poignant if you are as deeply down as was the "and I" of the title (played by Paul McGann) and as angrily out as his roommate Withnail (Richard E. Grant) when they were aspiring actors in London...
...knew that she never thought of herself merely as Mrs. John Charles Fremont, wife of the first senator from California, wife of the first Republican candidate for President in 1856, now wife of the commander of the Army of the West." Hence a young rebel soldier in a tight spot wonders, "What would his father do? He was a former senator, a former Vice President of the United States, a general in the Confederate Army, a man of the law." In Safire's hands, character analysis boils down to a matter of reeling off resumes...
...National Archives. Despite his elegant appearance, Mount admits he has fallen on "hard times" and is living in a Washington rooming house. He has published biographies of John Singer Sargent and other artists, and thus spent considerable time at the Library of Congress and National Archives. Though security is tight at both places, pilfering can go unnoticed. "We are caught between the need to give researchers access to + documents and security," explains Manuscript Librarian David Wigdor. "It doesn't do any good to have all this material unless people...
...more time we spent with the people of the inner cities," says White, "the deeper the understanding we hoped to get. This was not the sort of story you wanted to do up against a tight deadline." The extra time and effort, we think readers will agree, were worth...