The rolled-up sheet had been held in place by thread that was tied to the switch for the headmaster's reading light so tautly that when he turned it on, the thread snapped and the caricature was unfurled.
She was murdered by a schizophrenic stalker and ex-lover in a South Kensington hotel .The Spy Who Loved" is not just the story of a uniquely brave and complicated patriot, but also a scholarly and tautly written account of secret operations in occupied Europe.
Meticulously researched and tautly plotted, books such as (1972) and (1956) naturalistically depict gay love against a vivid, beautifully rendered backdrop of war and political upheaval.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (born June 19 , 1861 Edinburgh died Jan . 29 , 1928London) British field marshal, commander in chief of the British forces in France during most of World War I. His strategy of attrition (tautly summarized as "kill more Germans") resulted in enormous numbers of British casualties but little immediate gain in 1916 17 and made him a subject of controversy.
Tennis, original name lawn tennis, game in which two opposing players (singles) or pairs of players (doubles) use tautly strung rackets to hit a ball of specified size, weight, and bounce over a net on a rectangular court.
From Chile, Pablo Larraín's tautly controlled but emotionally compelling drama Post Mortem, set during the 1973 military coup d'état that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power, investigated the country's soul through the unusual prism of a mortuary attendant.
Daensing Kwin (Dancing Queen; Lee Seok-Hoon) offered buoyant romantic comedy, while new director Lee Donku showed his spurs in Kashiggot (Fatal), a powerfully acted thriller tautly mounted on a tiny budget.
He brought his spectacular sensibilities to bear on the biblical story of Moses and the flight of the Jews from Egypt in Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) before returning to space with the tautly plotted The Martian (2015), about an astronaut (Matt Damon) who must survive on Mars.
The realist tradition in British cinema continued to bear fruit with Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, a gripping drama about bleak lives on a housing estate, told observantly and tautly, without moralizing judgments.
Han emphasized the strength and nobility of the horses of the Tang empire by using a tautly controlled line and compositions of great clarity.
But this January, for his winter show, Armani's restrained palette of savvy navies and grey and the tautly buttoned torsos had a uniform air to them, too.
