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Friends describe her as a free spirit who went to a dozen Grateful Dead concerts, and Mr. Novak as slightly more high strung, with color-coded sponges in his kitchen.

The field office meets the U.N.H.C.R.'s minimum security standards for eastern Chad, which call for a wall two metres high strung with razor wire, a metal gate, and a contingent of security guards, called CopGuards.

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They look glamorously at home in the company style, which (highly influenced by the Gaga technique of the Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin) is high-strung with a snap to it and festooned with odd, non sequitur gestures.

Pale, thin, high-strung, with the baggy eyes of someone who doesn't get enough sleep, he could even be a guy looking to score a little coke — something Mr. Price admits to doing with regularity back in the '80s.

Temperaments in Brahmans range from very docile to very high-strung, with no real in-between characteristics.

Jodorowsky had come to film through the avant-garde directing productions of Beckett, Ionesco and others in Mexico before producing early films like The Holy Mountain, whose mixture of provocation and hallucinogenic spirituality appears, from the clips show in the documentary, to have combined the kitsch of Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theater Company with the high strung camp of Warhol's Factory.

He was not, however, just the starriest actor for high strung, tragic heroes half in love with painful suffering, deploying that famous tenor voice which Alec Guinness once apostrophised as being "like a silver trumpet muffled in silk".

Some of the best of those cartoons, complete with their often HIGH STRUNG! captions and HYSTERICAL PUNCTUATION!, have recently been published in "The Party, After You Left" (Bloomsbury), her eighth collection and the first, she says, that she has not instantly regretted.

He was not, however just the starriest actor for high strung, tragic heroes half in love with painful suffering, deploying that famous tenor voice of his which Alec Guinness once nicely apostrophised as being "like a silver trumpet muffled in silk".

You work or socialize with someone who is always stressed out and high strung.

If you are a novice rider, it is best for you to be with older horses, who are less likely to spook and be high strung.

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