Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls whom he almost knocked over as he hurried into a $25-a-head cocktail party for Philadelphia's electioneering Mayor James Tate. Unflappable Campaigner Humphrey recovered his balance and shook hands with the two girls, who were clad only in black boots, tight red leotards and astonished expressions. "I was thunderstruck," said Joan Krauss, 23. "I'm not used to meeting Vice Presidents in my underwear...
...Sweeney is concerned, the explosion in the size of Francis' canvases is matched only by the growing exuberance in the artist's use of colors. In the early 1950s, Francis' dappled abstracts were tight, taut and somewhat somber, a reflection of his cramped environment in Paris. But in 1957, he took a trip around the world, stayed five months in Japan, established a new home base in Santa Monica Canyon, Calif. For him, it was as if the clouds had parted, and down poured a torrent of scattered forms and heightened colors. "Francis," says Sweeney, "has become...
While the rest of us talk of situations and draw conclusions on the wall, he holds tight to his mystery, J. D. Salinger with a guitar. Presumably one could invade Salinger's blockhouse and say hello. One is not so sure about Dylan. Last spring he disappeared into his own motorpsychic nightmare, shocked by an overdose of drugs. Albert Grossman, his oxymoronic manager, convinced the mass media that the disaster was a Triumph on the New Jersey Pike. Dylan took cover in Woodstock, New York. One of Dylan's former producers says that a new album is forthcoming...
...race for the championship has been tight all year. Quincy, now in first place, started the year by edging defending champion Eliot, 1-0, on a disputed goal in the last quarter. Quincy remains undefeated with a 5-0-2 record. Its defense has been the key to its success all year, holding on to ties or one goal victories in many crucial games...
...Tight Defense...