Anthony Roth Costanzo, light in body and voice, graceful and tenuous, reprises the title role, appropriately dazzling in his Act 2 hymn to the sun.
Maybe his future is too tenuous to hold that title.
His own hopes for a sixth title seem tenuous, tied as they are to Howard's moody self-absorption.
The Italian comedian Roberto Benigni, visiting the Letterman show to promote his film "Life Is Beautiful," made his entrance to the strains of Sly and the Family Stone's "Life". The connection between song titles and movie title was tenuous, even lazy; "Everything Is Beautiful" would have worked just as well.
No doubt this was helped by the fact that The Spy Who Loved Me was forced to entirely ditch the written source after Fleming simply sold rights to the title; this tenuous relationship with the novels became the norm as the film-makers ran through the Fleming-originated supply.
"Dream on Monkey Mountain," the lyrical epic by the Trinidadian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, is an eclectic work, a layered narrative laden with historical, folkloric and literary allusions that, as the title suggests, maintains the tenuous logic and adventurous imagination of dreams.
Nearly two hours long, with a tenuous narrative continuity, "The Hottest State," whose title refers both to passion and to Texas, is far more coherent than Mr. Hawke's 2001 directorial debut, "Chelsea Walls".
The discussion also takes place against a backdrop of a growing number of shadowy, often semiofficial armed forces that operate under an array of titles, but that ultimately have only tenuous ties to the central government.
The title was "6 + 4 = 1 Tenuous Existence" (http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-me-quadruplets28jul28,0,4751217.story?).
Lewis plays multiple characters (including Warren's hapless ancestors and inept guru), all equally damned — but Warren's deliverance comes from a word that also serves as the film's alternate title, "Smorgasbord," which, through the plot's tenuous tricks, comes to represent nothing less than a clean slate of identity (and winks at the story's slapdash construction).
And now Mr Gore's prospects of another shot at the title look vanishingly small.The fact remains, he did hang on too long and on increasingly tenuous grounds.
