He learned the hard way how to write tightly, vividly and quickly.
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Students are taught "On the Road" in class, then must write tightly organized, double-spaced term papers on it, and if they don't get an A, it hurts their admissions prospects.
Mr. Hall, who began his career writing tightly constructed mystery novels, produced a steady stream of works, most set in the American West, of which the best known is "Warlock" (1958), a fictional reimagining of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Ms. Davis said "American Splendor" was a tightly written and tightly directed film (by its co-creators, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini), unlike "The Secret Lives of Dentists," which Ms. Davis shot two months later under Mr. Rudolph's famously flexible, collaborative direction.
The book is obviously longer than what you might find on the newsstand, but no more fastidiously written, as tightly focused but no more incisive.
Elegantly written and tightly plotted, "The Submission" ultimately remains a novel about the unfolding of a dramatic situation — a historian's novel — rather than a novel that explores the human condition with any profundity.
"The sheep need shearing... the shears need sharpening" and "the hay is ready", were among other code phrases used to alert the gang to a new message, written on tightly folded bits of paper wrapped in sticky tape and hidden in the dirt.
You don't need to send me the script.' " When he finally did read it, Mr. Rudolph recalled during a recent visit to New York, he discovered a tightly structured, tightly written screenplay of a sort he has usually avoided in favor of his own more conceptual, nonlinear projects.
They live, Mr. Baker writes, "pressed tightly against their neighbors, communicating nothing".
