WHEN we got to our hotel on St. Martin last week for a midwinter vacation, my wife and I found our suitcases' zippers had been locked tight somewhere en route with six-inch strips of tamper-proof heavy plastic ties.
Mr. Ellis then manipulates the video and animations in real time, creating an experience that falls somewhere "between the tight choreography of a film or musical, and the spontaneity of an improvisational jazz musician," he says.
England have to draw comfort from somewhere after losing two tight games against teams that they are supposed to outrank by a country mile, Ireland and Bangladesh.
His sets tend to be movies for the ears with flowed-together themes and vamps, and he is an "I know this from somewhere" composer: his small, tight melodies put you in mind of a Stephen Foster song, an Ellington or Monk melody, a hymn.
Some are close-ups that highlight every pore; some relegate the face to a tight few inches somewhere near the lower margin of the composition.
It's a sideways take on bodycon – or bodycon 3.0 as we're calling it, given that it's not new – sitting somewhere between sportswear and fashion-tight.
Somewhere in there is a better, tighter, funnier 50 minutes.
They saw their life crumble under the hands of those who would oppress and silence them, and still, they held tight to the hope that somewhere, somehow, things could be better.
When money seemed tight, cash always turned up from somewhere.
Honestly, there's a tight 120-minute movie in there, somewhere.
