Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aura of unflappable self-confidence that sometimes approached arrogance, Bundy was willing-and able-to learn. Although he had been one of the Kennedy Administration's most ardent hawks in supporting the bungled Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961, he later consistently counseled caution in such tight situations as the Berlin Wall crisis and the Cuban missile confrontation...
...Angels is a French film about two people who play roulette, all the time. Like its American counterparts about pool and poker, this could have been a tight, dirty little movie about people whose lives are built around gambling. Or it might have used the casino-world as a background for sharp social criticism. Working from both conceptions, director Jacques Demy tries to support a statement about psychology, love, and the malaise of Western Europe on the spindle of the spinning black wheel. But because Demy presents neither the development of the characters nor the dynamics of the game...
...Tight Ship...
...MBTA sabway car was deralled last tight at 8:15 p.m. at the Harvard Square station. It was the second such incident in less than two weeks...
There's nothing surf about Dennis Wilson or the other Beach Boys any more; somehow, they've turned straight. All the bleach is gone from their hair, and they wear surfer clothes--tight white levis, striped sports shirts, and blue tennis shoes--only at their concerts. Relaxing in their suite at the Sheraton Boston after Friday night's performance at the Garden, they looked like what we at Hawthorne High used to think of as rich kids--the ones from Beverly Hills who drove Peugeots and Porsches to little coffee houses on Sunset Boulevard after football games. We drove...