It was the intensely tight-knit family unit that Summer's one remaining elder brother, Academy Award nominee Joaquin, has fondly referred to on more than one occasion as 'Team Phoenix'.
Directed by Robert Wise (who had edited "Citizen Kane"), "The Set-Up" is a tight, intensely moving, pocket-size masterwork about Stoker Thompson, a washed-up, 35-year-old heavyweight who believes he's just "one punch away" from changing his lousy luck.
But those harmonies — rich, tight and intensely textured — gave the Watersons their distinctly premodern sound.
Rangel is the last of the tight-knit, intensely loyal, and politically savvy "Gang of Four", which has controlled Harlem politics since the 1970s, to still be in elected office.
Mrs. Clinton has long relied on a tight-knit, intensely loyal group of aides who share her instincts for political warfare and her skepticism and even hostility toward calls for fuller disclosure.
The triple-digit swing in the Dow extends the volatility that has rocked stock markets in recent months, as jumpy investors react quickly and intensely to incremental developments in the tight credit market.
A tight efficacy trial, focusing intensely on both glycemic control and on side effects, and which could be the basis for larger studies, possibly observational, in real life settings, is badly needed.
With Rhodes insisting that the band not perform live again until they were much tighter, the Clash rehearsed intensely over the following month.
Immersed in tradition and in appearance the quintessence of romanticism, he was none the less intensely contemporary, rebellious, iconoclastic, moody: James Dean in tights.
(In the case of Ray Charles, the tight framing struggles to contain the intensely orchestrated energy of the playing).
Though intensely personal, his story got its power from its tight discipline.
