Word: tightly
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...ugly spectacle, part Greek tragedy and part game-show television. Character becomes fate as hubris is defined anew. Yet the rituals of humiliation are straight Marshall McLuhan; the medium is the message as the cornered politician endures the prescribed sequence of televised statements, beginning with a tight-lipped acknowledgment of errors in judgment and ending with defiant surrender. So the political process is purified yet again, another heretic is hounded from public life. Some may see a rough frontier justice in the speedy verdict. But others may notice that a less than ennobling odor surrounded the entire affair, and wonder...
...National League in home runs (12), RBIs (27), runs (27), slugging (.900) and on-base (.475) percentages, game-winning hits (4) and batting average (.411), and second in stolen bases (10). If he is not launching balls over the center- field fence, he is retrieving them acrobatically or disrupting tight games on the base paths. How many ways can a man dominate a baseball game...
...tight varsity contest, the favored Yale crew earned a narrow early margin over the closely matched competition, and withstood strong challenges from both Harvard and Princeton on the way to a two-second victory over the Tigers...
With the match tied at 4-4 in games, the Palandjian brothers were involved in a tight match at number one doubles. After winning the first set, 6-3, over Maine and Harrison, the brothers proceeded to lose the second set by the same score...
...Mountain, uses its resources well. The New York setting, for example, might have been sketched more elaborately. But a single scene of Tommy hustling an irascible old man (Tom Aldredge) across the street before the light changes conveys all that is needed. Trying to squeeze his car into a tight parking space, Tommy huffs mightily as he turns the steering wheel back and forth while his front-seat companion, the indomitable Tamkin, rattles on: a perfect visual metaphor for Tommy's plight. The makers of Seize the Day did not settle for translating words to screen; somebody gave this...