Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half-mile track is a series of tight, tough curves-carrousels, S's, hairpins and hard rights and lefts-30 in all, with only 80 meters of straightaway in the whole labyrinth. Though the car can seldom reach 40 m.p.h., to the driver, with eyes only three feet above the asphalt, the sensation, if not the speed, is supersonic. He is competing with the clock. As he crosses the finish line, his time is shown in lighted, 2-ft.-high digital figures. First time around it may be a humiliating 98.46 sec. After a few more heart-in-mouth...
Besides the conditioning aspects of the camp, McCurdy claims that the experience is perhaps most valuable for intangible factors like team spirit that develop there. Probably more than any other Harvard sports team, the runners are a tight-knit group. The reason: McCurdy...
...RECIPE sounds like a sure-fire concoction for comic relief: take on pudgy post-pubescent with an effeminate face and a flair for tight-fitting French jeans and outmoded platform shoes; garnish with a sissy's voice and a drag queen's propensities. Serve in a Toronto beauty salon. Now take one long-haired schizo on the lam from the local loony bin, throw in a few touches of outward normalcy--a good eye for fashionable apparel, decidedly hetero leanings, and a good old-fashioned motherly instinct--and dash with an urge to write whacked-out tales for her beloved...
...read his admirers have come to expect. In The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman, Fowles kept fun and philosophy in separate compartments. The narrative sleights of hand in these novels could be explicated in the classroom; the books could also be enjoyed-for their tight plotting and pervasive eroticism-straight off the drugstore rack. Daniel Martin is altogether more austere; its story cannot be pried loose from its philosophical attack on one of the modern age's sacred tenets-"that only a tragic, absurdist, black-comic view...of human destiny could be counted...
...though total circulation is down a bit, to 1 million. The new management hopes to extend that rally-and make Esquire more timely-by shortening its Rip Van Winklesque lead time (the January issue is now in preparation) and doubling the magazine's frequency. Felker, 51, is tight-lipped about what else may mark his reign, but emphatic about what will not. Still smarting from his takeover by Murdoch, he has worked out an agreement with Harmsworth, whose firm is putting up most of the purchase price, that he will not be removed while Esquire is successful. Vows...