Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beast roars as it leaps into the sunlight. Thirty feet Tom nose to tail and wrapped in scarlet p1ates of steel, it hurtles down the highway at 100 m.p.h. Outside a new apartment house, it screams to a rubber-ripping stop and flings nine tiny men in tight black uniforms off its big red back. The men crash into a flat, turn drawers and closets inside out, carry off a heap of hidden books, whip out a handsome copper flamethrower, burn all the books to fine grey soot...
...excitement to the audience through their music. The Remains disbanded two months ago because their sound was out and they couldn't reproduce the quality of their performances on a record. During the same period, the Spoonful made it because their sound is contemporary and it is disciplined and tight enough to record well...
...nationally televised speech be fore a mass rally of cheering Georgians, Brezhnev praised the republic for "successes in economic and cultural construction," paid tight-lipped tribute to Stalin for his "distinguished role in the course of the revolutionary struggle...
...make them think we're the Mexican army," muses Marvin, plotting strategy after his tight-lipped raiders have secretly witnessed the bandidos justice, meted out bullet by bullet beside the tracks to a whole trainload ol captured Federales. Keeping the good guys and bad guys sharply in his sight at all times, Director Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry) sets up a neat surprise or two and shows a marksman's instinct for knowing what to do with all that awesome western scenery-he pumps i full of high-gauge performances, guts ingenuity, flaming arrows, dynamite anc hot lead...
Chapman himself spoke of a compromise between a drama school and "laissez-faire amateurism." Many undergraduates saw in the statements of Chapman and others the possibility that Harvard's new drama center would be used as a device to implement tight faculty control over undergraduate theatre. Such fears were hardly quieted as administrative plans for the Loeb gradually developed in the Spring...