Yet it is the conflict between Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge that drives the film, with Crawford deep-voiced and poised, and McCambridge taut, her voice thin with tension.
Lish had edited Carver's first collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and together they had composed a taut new voice full of left-field desire and hopeless dread.
Her face taut, her voice trembling and her eyes welling with tears, Mrs. Clinton said she had never used the profanity-ridden slur against the campaign manager, Paul Fray, who is Baptist and whose paternal great-grandmother was Jewish.
If you feel as if your sides are sore, your back is too taut, your voice is tired, or if you feel a little dizzy, stop for a day and try again later.
Torre continued, his voice taut like a piano wire: "We helped the Phillies today.
"Will they make the best choice to build equity?" a taut announcer's voice asked as the show broke for a commercial.
This version of "Juno" is one of my favourite songs of all time; the guitars shift between lofty harmonics and a very Scottish kind of taut, and Sue Tompkins' voice roams free in perfect counterpoint.
Other members of the company, such as Willem Dafoe and Spalding Gray, went on to have successful film careers, but Vawter, who had AIDS and died in 1994, at forty-five, was a pure theatre animal; with his deep voice, taut frame, and sad, sardonic eyes, he thrilled men and women alike.
Enclosed within is a really fine, taut, mainly single-voice account of Bach's music – led by Nicholas Mulroy's powerful Evangelist and Matthew Brook's affecting Christ – which somehow acquires new power for emerging from its spartan surroundings.
