"Ghost Wall" is tautly framed by Silvie's point of view.
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His camera is nervous, jumping tautly from scene to scene.
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The Chemist is, her publisher announces, a tautly plotted thriller.
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Thrillers need to be, as Meyer's copywriter knows, tautly plotted.
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The rice was perfectly seasoned and shaped tautly into beds for the fish.
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Pop may have sidelined guitar-driven rock, but live musicianship and tautly structured songs endure.
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Though their songs are tautly structured and decidedly sweet, their cloak of mayhem can be dissuading.
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This Americanized adaptation of British author Paula Hawkins' best-seller doesn't wrap up as tautly as it should.
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It's a formal pose of resignation, but beneath that performance, the model's attitude of tautly patient obedience is equally clear.
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They are small and tautly composed, with radiant colors and chiseled forms; the word "gems" applies with an unusual, unhackneyed precision.
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Many observers have concluded that Mr. Trump dominates the Republican Party, and his loyal base holds congressional Republicans tautly in line.
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On the pole, she performs slow, graceful rotations which prioritize control: her legs tautly together in a marvel of core body strength.
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That aside, Callender's debut is tautly written and beautifully realized, and deserves to be ranked among the year's most ambitious and provocative.
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The re-creations of the flight are tense and tautly directed, the kind of action sequences that lure curious viewers through the door.
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We'll be lucky this art season if we get another exhibition as tautly beautiful as "Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates" at the Shed.
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An earlier version of this article described incorrectly the Zegna jackets that fit as tautly as a true double-breasted model when fastened.
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Two aging Irish drug smugglers sit in a Spanish ferry terminal trading absurd jokes and quasi-philosophical banter in this tautly written novel.
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Florian Lösche's black box set resembles a playpen fenced in by tautly stretched elastic bands through which the actors force themselves on- and offstage.
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This is partly due to his pitiless prose, tautly translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, its simplicity and calmness adding to the menace of his images.
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As Jenn Shapland recounts in her rousing and tautly written new book, "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers," McCullers struggled with the novel for years trying to understand Frankie.
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Working from a script on which he shares credit with four others, Berg tautly captures the chaos and carnage, as well as the intense search to bring the duo to justice.
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On the jab bag, suspended tautly between cables connected to ceiling and floor, which flies back at a fighter with each shot, Canelo unloads his full arsenal, while slipping the return.
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In the mime-as-metaphor symbolism of this tautly constructed, demanding fable, Dennis's predicament is likened to the feeling of being cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible wall.
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They were so tautly fitted that they telegraphed her character's coiled sexual longings; and yet so variously patterned that each change of dress acts to signal a shift in the movie's emotional weather.
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Even once the basic scenario becomes clear — sometimes via startling reveals the audience will absorb before the characters, and sometimes via tautly directed action — there's still a lot about the world left to learn.
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Robert K. Massie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who wrote gripping, tautly narrated and immensely popular books on giants of Russian history, died on Monday at his home in Irvington, N.Y. He was 90.
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The stakes are high in Mordicai Gerstein's "The Boy and The Whale," a tautly constructed narrative about a fisherman's son who wishes to free a whale from the net his father depends on for his livelihood.
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But Tom McCarthy's drama about The Boston Globe's investigation into widespread sex abuse by Catholic priests -- and its coverup by the Boston Archdiocese -- is so well-crafted and tautly paced that it feels like a thriller.
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Much of the information you might hope to find—its mass, topography, petrology, orbit, the nature of its surface, what it takes to get there and the folklore it has inspired—is tautly arranged in separate chapters.
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At the beach front, a handful of fighters walked toward the sea, only to halt in their tracks: A barely visible line was pulled tautly across the sand, a mark of land mines laid in the night.
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Mr. Hoebee fleetly paces the timeless "Romeo and Juliet" narrative about young lovers divided by their warring clans, which the librettist Arthur Laurents tautly updated to a murderous rivalry among teenage gangs in 1950s New York City.
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It's not as tautly intense as the exceptional "Never Hungover Again," released in 2014, but rather takes time to breathe, calming down the guitars and drums and letting Mr. Johnson and his stresses ease into the fore.
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For the next few hours, Smith and the singer, along with two of Smith's producers, hum, mumble and "yabba dabba doo" melodies, piecing together disjointed sounds so tautly that it's hard to imagine they ever existed separately.
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Tautly directed by John McTiernan, The Hunt for Red October is an action movie classic with a star-studded cast that also includes James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Scott Glenn, Courtney B. Vance, Stellan Skarsgård, and Tim Curry.
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Tautly written and well-acted by its small cast, the podcast combines shades of The X-Files and the HBO psychotherapy drama In Treatment, plus the youthful characters of a WB drama like Roswell or Smallville, into one compulsively listenable tale.
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In 1974, Vera Stravinsky gave Mr. Wuorinen permission to write a piece based on incomplete sketches by her husband, Igor; the result, "A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky," is a tautly compelling masterwork with an acerbic but moving lament at its center.
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Propelled by a liltingly beautiful musical score by Joel P. West, "Just Mercy" keeps its emotions on a low simmer, its absorbing, tautly designed drama finally coming to a climax that is satisfying on one level, and absolutely shattering on another.
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The teams fought through tautly played second quarter with the Spurs gaining a seven-point lead twice in the period before Golden State pushed within 31-30 after consecutive 3-pointers by Brandon Rush and Thompson and jumpers by Barnes and Thompson.
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The teams fought through tautly played second quarter with the Spurs gaining a seven-point lead twice in the period before Golden State pushed within 23-21 after consecutive 257-pointers by Brandon Rush and Thompson and jumpers by Barnes and Thompson.
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But it's still one of the most affecting, tautly constructed electronic albums to emerge from the millennial generation, one that shrouds the mundane rituals of city life in its own Big Mood: The feeling that things were more exciting before we got here.
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Cognizant readers might recognize in "Nutshell" the influences of Richard Dawkins (about whose work McEwan has written thoughtfully) or Daniel Dennett — and a good dose of Agatha Christie — but it hardly matters: The pleasures of this tautly plotted book require no required reading.
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In several respects, John Wray's " Godsend " (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) appears to be a conventional specimen: a compact, tautly written novel of travel and growth, about a troubled eighteen-year-old California woman who leaves home and sets out on an arduous, sometimes terrifying journey.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads At the new Martos Gallery space in Chinatown, Ebony L. Haynes has organized Invisible Man, a tautly minimal and conceptual exhibition that draws sharp, revealing connections between the works on view and the human bodies circulating among them.
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The nails are driven into the floor (or, in these two works, a white board) and the wall according to a set pattern — an arc, for example — and the string is tautly stretched between the two sets of nails according to a second pattern.
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It's an incredibly smart, well-written movie (albeit with some breathtaking examples of gross machismo, in the tradition of all great Simpson and Bruckheimer productions) about race, professionalism, and generational change… that also happens to be one of the most tautly-paced submarines thrillers ever made.
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But it also suggests a more contemporary, tautly eroticized and virtualized flesh that banks on a hyper-sexed, electronic corporeality that is artificial, bionic, and prosthetic — basically an updated extension of the re-territorialization of physique, identity, and appearance depicted early on in the feverish cyborg aesthetics of Oskar Schlemmer and Fernand Léger.
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By the end of the tautly sustained 70 minutes of "Is This a Room" — the extraordinary documentary theater work by Tina Satter that reopened this week after a brief run in January at the Kitchen — you'll probably feel the need for a drink, or a yoga session, or a full-throated scream.
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Tautly directed by Lee Sunday Evans at 59E59 Theaters, and featuring an excellent cast, the play examines in minute detail the relationship between Brian (Bhavesh Patel) and Russ (Michael Braun) — not a friendship, really, but a competitive companionship that sustains them both at a time when each is underemployed and entering middle age.
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Sure you could see in those hybrid accessories a nod to '90s Helmut Lang (a designer once described as the Type O of fashion: its universal donor.) And you could discern in the shifting volumes — flowing suits played off tautly snug ones — elements reminiscent of screen grabs from Pinterest pages devoted to vintage Armani.
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His performances on visits with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (where he was the music director for a decade) and his relatively few guest appearances with the Philharmonic have confirmed his reputation as a technically rigorous and interpretatively powerful conductor; he seems a maestro of the old school, with a penchant for tautly controlled, top-down performances.
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The truck was driven by Serenity Park's manager, Matt Simmons, a tautly built, square-jawed 213-year-old, who came to the sanctuary in 2006 after making little progress as a patient in traditional group therapy at the V.A. When his therapist first instructed him to visit the aviary down the hill, Simmons thought he was going to be ''dealing with chickens,'' he later told me.
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Finally, I got it: as he rocked back and forth, both hands on the racquet, pointing it at the ground and then unbending to address his target, he was like an archer—one of the archers, let us say, in Olivier's "Henry V" (1944), lifting their longbows toward the approaching foe, each with an arm drawn tautly back, ready to unleash the whistling rain.
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There were slim great coats of double-face cashmere whose impeccable line owed to sartorial details like vertical bellows that preserve the silhouette when you reach into your pocket; or sports coats with detachable interior belts that can be worn inside or outside or removed altogether; or shearling blousons with a triple cross-stitch X (the Zegna couture logo) shaved into the surface; or one-and-a-half breasted jackets that fit as tautly as a true double-breasted model does when fastened, while remaining tidy when the coat is undone.
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Science fiction author Greg Egan described it as "an ingenious, tautly constructed time-travel story".
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The original right arm of the centaur is pulled tautly back showing that he has his hands bound tightly behind his back, and "grimaces in pain and sorrow as an amorino pulls the centaur's head back at an abrupt angle."Van de Grift 1984:383.
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After criticizing unrealistic science fiction, Carl Sagan in 1978 listed Time and Again as among stories "that are so tautly constructed, so rich in the accommodating details of an unfamiliar society that they sweep me along before I have even a chance to be critical".
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Emma Hagestadt, writing in The Independent, said that "the late Brian Moore's 18th novel is also one of his best – a gripping moral thriller based on the real life story of Paul Touvier, 'the torturer of Lyon'" and described it as "Tautly written and steeped in atmosphere".
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A profile on the director called it "perhaps the first example of prime Guillermin... a 70-minute programmer so tautly directed that every image counts, every detail matters, every actor's movement feels perfectly timed-a true gem."Savage Spectacles Möller, Olaf. Film Comment; New York Vol. 50, Iss.
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The Washington Posts Robert F. Jones described Jaws as "much more than a gripping fish story. It is a tightly written, tautly paced study," which "forged and touched a metaphor that still makes us tingle whenever we enter the water."Jones, Robert F. "Book World", The Washington Post. Sunday, January 27, 1974. p3.
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The weaving process (whatu) for clothing was performed not with a loom and shuttle but with the threads being manipulated and tied with fingers. A strong thread is fastened tautly in a horizontal position between two or four upright weaving sticks (turuturu). To this thread (tawhiu) are attached the upper ends of the warp or vertical threads (io). The warp is arranged close together.
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Hundreds of Afghan girls take active part in Scout programs during the late 1950s. The viewpoints of king Zahir Shah at that time were practiced by the organization. The administrators added further obligations to the general principles of the Scout movement, obligation to king, nation and country. Discipline and obligation were welcome educational goals for governing, and Scouting was organized very tautly and almost militarily compared with other nations.
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According to Rotten Tomatoes, 63% of 30 surveyed critics gave it positive reviews; the average rating is 5.6 out of 10. Tim Robey of The Telegraph said that the film starts off well but loses its way. Lael Loewenstein of Variety called it "a smartly conceived, tautly executed psychological thriller." Philip French of The Guardian called the film clever and "ingeniously developed" but criticised the ending as disappointing.
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It was "pretty lame ó and it'll likely be one of Canadian music's next big exports." Rolling Stone Jon Caramanica wrote that the tracks were "brief, ephemeral, tautly structured, bombastically produced blasts of snotty posing." Similar to their peers, the band "insist on balancing their immaturity with excuses for their immaturity". No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls was included on best-of pop punk album lists by A.Side TV, BuzzFeed, Houston Press, Rock SoundBird, ed.
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Sounds described it as "dull, heavy-handed melodrama", adding there is "lots of whizz-bang sound effects but precious little inspiration". New Musical Express said the song was a disappointing follow-up to "We'll Bring the House Down": "After a few hearings you realise it's just plain bad". Melody Maker said the song was "more tautly constructed" than its predecessor and "not so insanely vigorous". They added that the chorus is "maddeningly infectious".
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The Survivalist received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 97% score based on 39 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The critical consensus states: "The Survivalist's deliberate pace pays gripping dividends with a tautly told post-apocalyptic drama that offers some uniquely thought-provoking twists." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 80 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Imagination reviewer Mark Reinsberg received the novel favorably, citing its "brilliant depictions of future civilization and 24th century social life.""Imagination Science Fiction Library", Imagination, June 1953, p. 144 After criticizing unrealistic science fiction, Carl Sagan in 1978 listed The Demolished Man as among stories "that are so tautly constructed, so rich in the accommodating details of an unfamiliar society that they sweep me along before I have even a chance to be critical".
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In her 2015 exhibition at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, "Neither Here nor There", several paintings and drawings were exhibited which included Wet Cluster. This work shows overlaid, complex brushwork that is scratched, squiggled, smeared, melting into each other, the brilliance of orange-gold, forced back by small tautly outlined rectangles of grey and black. But the brightness seeps through and around them, in a beautiful orchestration. It represents the tangible raw energy that makes her process memorable.
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In particular, the painting may refer to the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, three civil rights workers who disappeared in July 1964 near Philadelphia, Mississippi, not far from Overstreet's home town. They were later found shot and buried in an earthen dam. In this painting, limp trouser legs dangle vertically, with a rope tautly crossing the painting at a diagonal. The abstracted forms suggest charged symbols like a burning cross and Ku Klux Klan hoods.
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Alan Sepinwall of The Star- Ledger deemed "Dr. Linus" "easily the most compelling episode of this final season so far," enjoying even the scenes involving Jack, despite his "pathological hatred" of the character. Zap2it's Ryan McGee named the episode his second favorite of the season, kept only from superseding "The Substitute" by the overuse of Arzt. Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune called it "a tautly constructed and thus very satisfying episode of TV", deeming Emerson's performance "awe-inspiring" and the storylines "heartbreaking".
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Ferrari 250 GT SWB In 1959 Ferrari gave the 250 GT Berlinetta sharper handling, reducing its wheelbase from 2,600 mm to 2,400 mm. In 1960, Scaglietti revealed the 250 GT California Spyder SWB at the Geneva Motor Show, its body pulled more tautly over this updated chassis. Like the 250 GT Berlinetta SWB on which it was based, the revised Spyder also received disc brakes and a version of the three-litre V12. It was fitted with 185VR15 Pirelli Cinturato tyres (CA67).
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Reviewer praised Bijibal's music, Pookutty's sound mixing and the performances, especially of Jayasurya but criticized the film's title and "the never-ending drinking sessions and hasty climax". Deepa Soman of The Times of India rated 2.5 out of 5 stars and praised the dialogues and the one-liners but criticized the film's ending half that with some portions "get dramatic". Deepa Gauri of Khaleej Times said in an out of review article that the film is an " intelligently written and tautly made quirky tale".
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After losing to Fats, Eddie could spiral down to the scrapheap, but he meets Bert Gordon, a . Bert teaches him about winning, or more particularly about losing. Tautly written, it is a treatise on how someone, with all of the skills, can lose if he "wants" to lose; how a loser is beaten by himself, not by his opponent; and how he can learn to win, if he can look deeply enough into himself. The book was followed by the sequel The Color of Money.
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Lewis, p. 74 Patrick Adiarte, who originated the role of Wang San, however, saw it as "corny stuff ... put in there to get a laugh". Helen Chao's sad "Love, Look Away" is described by Lewis as "arguably the most tautly crafted blues song Dick and Oscar ever wrote". Having decided that record companies were profiting more from the sales of their cast albums than they were, Rodgers and Hammerstein formed their own record company to produce the cast recording for the original production of Flower Drum Song.
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Love/Hate was met with critical acclaim. AllMusic editor Andy Kellman applauded its "unified sound" as one "unlike most modern R&B; albums" and said neither Timbaland nor The Neptunes have "put together something as consistent or tautly constructed, simultaneously single-oriented and album- oriented, as this." Drew Hinshaw from PopMatters found The-Dream's lyrics empathic and wrote that he has "something few hitmakers can claim: a wide- angle lens." Sean Fennessey, writing in Vibe, said the record "never breaks stride, balancing pace with power",Fennessey, Sean.
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New York Times critics have described his painting style as a "layered shapes in saturated colors" which were "vibrant, playful, semi-abstract landscapes" which "layers broad, richly colored shapes of trees, rivers and hills into funky, tautly frontal arcadian visions." Paintings had a "mix of Fauvism, Abstract Expressionism and outsider vision. Art critic John Goodrich of the New York Sun felt Hatton's paintings were less "real" in terms of factual description but they "contain their own peculiar truths, evident in keenly felt colors and designs." Goodrich felt Hatton "finds expression through his forms.
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Works ascribed to a youthful period in the 1520s have tautly composed landscapes inhabited by a few large-scale figures. A transitional period in the early 1530s was followed by mature works produced from the late 1530s to c. 1555, in which the compositions are more complex and the coloring more subtle. In the view of Dickson and Welch, at the end of his life the artist returned to his youthful style in two paintings for Ibrahim Mirza's copy of Jami's Haft Awrang ('Seven thrones') produced between 1556 and 1565.
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The reviewer praised the performances of Devika and Kalyan Kumar, and noted that though there were clichés, "the presentation is racy and superb." Randor Guy wrote, "Sridhar proved that movies could be made with new faces, limited sets and low budgets if one had an interesting, emotionally rich story, tautly narrated on screen with pleasing music". Guy concluded his review by stating that the film would be "remembered for its excellent music and impressive performances by Muthuraman, Devika, , Nagesh, Manorama and child artiste Padmini." Dinamalar praised the film for showing love as a divine thing.
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After removing the top of the bomb, Karl gently handles the cap then abruptly calls for help, claiming the detonator pin has slipped. Eric rushes in and provides a pencil, which he offers to hold in place of the pin while Karl retrieves his tools from the landing. Moments later, Eric is stunned when the rope Karl used earlier to remove the top pulls tautly across his hand, forcing him to release the pencil. The bomb does not explode, however, and Eric realizes that Karl has tried to kill him.
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle received a positive critical reaction when it was published. In its starred review of the book, Kirkus Reviews called it "tautly plotted, vividly narrated, carefully researched: a thrilling tale deepened by its sober look at attitudes that may have been more exaggerated in the past but that still persist". Cathryn Mercier in Five Owls review journal noted the "innovative mixture of history and fiction" and said the book was "expertly crafted and consistently involving, it is sure to excite, enthrall, and challenge readers." Horn Book, giving it its highest rating of outstanding, said the book was "a rousing adventure story".
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It is produced by certain retinal cells. It is of rather similar composition to the cornea, but contains very few cells (mostly phagocytes which remove unwanted cellular debris in the visual field, as well as the hyalocytes of Balazs of the surface of the vitreous, which reprocess the hyaluronic acid), no blood vessels, and 98–99% of its volume is water (as opposed to 75% in the cornea) with salts, sugars, vitrosin (a type of collagen), a network of collagen type II fibres with the mucopolysaccharide hyaluronic acid, and also a wide array of proteins in micro amounts. Amazingly, with so little solid matter, it tautly holds the eye.
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Helon Habila of The Guardian notes that the novel's first part is slow in pace but it is about political and personal survival and is "a good example of how the post-colonial novel should be written, dispassionately, avoiding the easy pitfalls of nostalgia and essentialism". An American weekly, Publishers Weekly, in their review mentions that Vassanji has explored "a conflict of epic proportions from the perspective of a man trapped in 'the perilous in-between'". The New Yorker reviews the novel as "tautly written" and mentions that the narrative built for the lead characters seems "forced". It also notes that "the book admirably captures the tenor of the postcolonial period".
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After publication in the United States, The New York Review of Books called it Vásquez's "most intelligent and persuasive work". The review is titled "Akin to Conrad in Colombia": > With his book of Belgian short stories and his five Colombian novels, > Vásquez has accumulated an impressive body of work, one of the most striking > to have emerged in Latin America so far this century … Like Conrad’s best > novels, Vásquez’s are tautly written—every line is charged with acute > observation and analysis. In this he also recalls Borges, albeit in a more > down-to-earth, nonmetaphysical mode.David Gallagher, “Akin to Conrad in > Colombia”, The New York Review of Books, octubre 27 de 2016.
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Grace Glueck (November 13, 1998), On a Journey Through a Maze, Contemplating Light and Color New York Times. was presented at Dia:Chelsea between 1998 and 2000. It consists of 18 small rooms, divided by walls of tautly stretched scrim; the light in each room, its value depending on the distance from the windows, is enhanced by four white-and-colored double fluorescent bulbs, each hung vertically at the center of each wall.Grace Glueck (November 13, 1998), On a Journey Through a Maze, Contemplating Light and Color New York Times. In 2015, it was reinstalled at Dia:Beacon where it will remain on view through 2017.Robert Irwin: Cacophonous, April 10, 2015 – May 9, 2015 Pace Gallery, New York.
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She ambushes Sonya while Smoke attacks Jax, and she is depicted as being an unmasked "angular, exotic- looking woman with eyes like burning coals, and a body as tautly well- conditioned as her smile was vicious", laughing an insane and inhuman laughter. Mileena scissor-grips Sonya's neck with "her powerful thigh muscles" before being thrown off by Sonya. She then introduces herself after this initial confrontation, adding that she does not appreciate being confused with her "virtuous half-sister." Eventually, Sonya fatally strangles Mileena with the handle of her own sai after a second fight, and when she and Jax examine Mileena's corpse, Sonya wonders if Mileena was just "another cyborg" after spotting a shoulder tattoo similar to the mark found on Cyrax.
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139 A decade later, Time re-characterized its opinion of the book, calling it "an extraordinary novel even by literary standards, [which] has flourished by word of mouth for a dozen years". After criticizing unrealistic science fiction, Carl Sagan in 1978 listed A Canticle for Leibowitz as among stories "that are so tautly constructed, so rich in the accommodating details of an unfamiliar society that they sweep me along before I have even a chance to be critical". A Canticle for Leibowitz was an early example of a genre story becoming a mainstream best-seller after large publishers entered the science-fiction market. In 1961 it was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novel by The World Science Fiction Convention.
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The Canadian Film Encyclopedia describes the "moving and powerful documentary" as a "personal, passionate elegy for the past," and a "tautly structured, elegantly crafted dirge" reflecting the guilt and madness of war. > It benefits from the inherent sense of irrelevance that serves as the > central mood for virtually all of Shebib's films, and has been justly > compared to such pacifist classics as Georges Franju's Hôtel des Invalides > (1952) and Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (1955). Geoff Pevere calls the documentary a "wrenching portrait" of the "forgotten war vets", the most "eloquent attainment" of the balancing act of passion and objectivity by Shebib as a non-fiction filmmaker. The film is a powerful statement against countercultural narcissism and "an indictment against collective memory".
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During restoration via tissue expansion, the remaining penile skin is pulled forward over the glans, and tension is maintained either manually or through the aid of a foreskin restoration device. Manual methods are often used by men first starting restoration, but can be used at any stage of the restoration process, and refers to the necessity of the restorer to manually maintain the tension by holding the skin tautly with his fingers using one of several variations in finger placement. Many specialized foreskin restoration devices that grip the skin with or without tape are also commercially available. Tension from these devices may be applied by weights, elastic straps, or inflation as a means to either push the skin forward on the penis, or by a combination of these methods.
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" According to Andy Smith of the Providence Journal, "Jackson and company created a sensory overload of lights, dancers, video, fireworks, explosions, costumes and sets ... The music was competently performed, but this was a concert for the age of MTV, more satisfying to the eye than the ear." Although he believed she gave a well performed production, he felt she lacked the stage presence of rivals such as Madonna and Tina Turner. Greg Kot of Rolling Stone wrote: "If a performance can be faulted for being too well-rehearsed and too tautly paced, this was certainly an example ... Small of voice and slight of stature, Jackson seems more at home in a Fame-style ensemble than she does as a larger-than-life performer. Yet it's exactly that quality that makes her so endearing.
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Altar frontal of Italian opera di commessi, Dubrovnik Cathedral Detail of design with roses over crossed canes, 1882 Pietra dura () or pietre dure (see below), called parchin kari or parchinkari () in the Indian Subcontinent, is a term for the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images. It is considered a decorative art. The stonework, after the work is assembled loosely, is glued stone-by-stone to a substrate after having previously been "sliced and cut in different shape sections; and then assembled together so precisely that the contact between each section was practically invisible". Stability was achieved by grooving the undersides of the stones so that they interlocked, rather like a jigsaw puzzle, with everything held tautly in place by an encircling 'frame'.
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Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, reviewed the picture favorably, both for its screenplay and direction, writing: "In the light of this agitated history, it is somewhat surprising to find that Salt of the Earth is, in substance, simply a strong pro-labor film with a particularly sympathetic interest in the Mexican- Americans with whom it deals....But the real dramatic crux of the picture is the stern and bitter conflict within the membership of the union. It is the issue of whether the women shall have equality of expression and of strike participation with the men. And it is along this line of contention that Michael Wilson's tautly muscled script develops considerable personal drama, raw emotion and power." Crowther called the film "a calculated social document".
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Upon the retirement of Sir Malcolm Grant as provost of the College in 2013, however, the body was present at Grant's final council meeting. As of 2013, this was the only time that the body of Bentham has been taken to a UCL council meeting. (There is a persistent myth that the body of Bentham is present at all council meetings.) Bentham had intended the auto-icon to incorporate his actual head, mummified to resemble its appearance in life. Southwood Smith's experimental efforts at mummification, based on practices of the indigenous people of New Zealand and involving placing the head under an air pump over sulfuric acid and drawing off the fluids, although technically successful, left the head looking distastefully macabre, with dried and darkened skin stretched tautly over the skull.
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" Peter Hall of Cinematical.com said "The gore, the nudity, the language, the gags, the charactersit's all always on the rise. Just when you think things could not possibly get more ridiculous, that the film has peaked, Aja and screenwriters Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg manage to ram another syringe of adrenaline into its heart." The Hollywood Reporter referred to the film as "a pitch-perfect, guilty- pleasure serving of late-summer schlock that handily nails the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the Roger Corman original" while stating "Jaws it ain'tAja exhibits little patience for such stuff as dramatic tension and tautly coiled suspense, and there are some undeniable choppy bits...but he never loses sight of the potential fun factor laid out in Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg's script.
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Contemporary reviews were mostly positive. In his article for Rolling Stone, Charley Walters praised the LP, writing that "the snarling chords of guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford tautly propel each number, jibing neatly with the rawness of singer Steven Tyler, whose discipline is evident no matter how he shrieks, growls, or spits out the lyrics." Billboard reviewer called the music "derivative", but added that the band's "tough and nasty rock'n'roll vision" could be successful with the help of the right producers. Music critic Robert Christgau found the band "inheritors" of Grand Funk in dumbness, but considered them "loud and cunning enough to provide a real treat" for the public of such music and apparently in possession of a sense of humor as exemplified in "Lord of the Thighs".
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Also, the first two novels in the series are largely tautly written affairs that come in around the 300-page mark and both comprise a compelling voyage through the inner dialogue of their unnamed narrator. On the other hand, The Farewell Symphony is a more epic 500 pages in which White apparently aims at and successfully accomplishes the great novel. Another distinguishing characteristic that sets The Farewell Symphony apart from its predecessors is the former were largely concerned with struggle, whereas in the third volume White/the narrator encounters gradually increasing professional success and is thus initiated into the American literary elite in which he well truly earns his place, between the continued, at times leviathan struggles he encounters. This appears to change the tone and flow of The Farewell Symphony quite dramatically in comparison with the previous two installments, with the tone and direction changing on multiple occasions.
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The Stone Skys release was anticipated on several "best of" upcoming science fiction and fantasy lists, including The Washington Post and io9, and reception upon its release was laudatory, winning Jemisin a third consecutive Hugo Award for Best Novel,. This is an extraordinary achievement, as Jemisin has won the Hugo Award for best novel in three consecutive years. In starred reviews, Publishers Weekly summed up the novel as having "vivid characters, a tautly constructed plot, and outstanding worldbuilding" that came together in "an impressive and timely story of abused, grieving survivors fighting to fix themselves and save the remnants of their shattered home", and Kirkus Reviews noting that "Jemisin continues to break the heart with her sensitive, cleareyed depictions of a beyond-dysfunctional family and the extraordinarily destructive force that is prejudice." RT Book Reviews gave the book five stars, higher than the first two books in the series.
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The book has received high praise from several science fiction writers. After criticizing unrealistic science fiction, Carl Sagan in 1978 listed The Stars My Destination as among stories "that are so tautly constructed, so rich in the accommodating details of an unfamiliar society that they sweep me along before I have even a chance to be critical". By 1987, when the author died, "It was apparent that the 1980s genre owed an enormous debt to Bester—and to this book in particular," Neil Gaiman wrote in the introduction to a 1999 edition of the book. "The Stars My Destination is, after all, the perfect cyberpunk novel: it contains such cheerfully protocyber elements as multinational corporate intrigue; a dangerous, mysterious, hyperscientific MacGuffin (PyrE); an amoral hero; a supercool thief-woman ..." James Lovegrove called it "the very best of Bester", and Thomas M. Disch identified it as "one of the great sf novels of the 1950s".
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" Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter noted: "Even with the plot's built-in ticking clock, the film relinquishes the tautly calibrated pace in the third act, never to get completely back on track." David Edelstein's review for New York Magazine carried the headline "The Taking of Pelham 123 is not worth running down a flight of subway-station stairs for." Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars, and began his review with "There’s not much wrong with Tony Scott’s “The Taking of Pelham 123,” except that there’s not much really right about it." Ebert commented that the lead actors lacked passion in their performances: "Oh, John Travolta is angry and Denzel Washington is determined, but you don’t sense passion in the performances. They’re about behaving, not evoking." He also compared it unfavorably with the 1974 original, calling it "less juicy" and opining that the special effects are "not an improvement", "The only performance notable is by newcomer Victor Gojcaj, silent but deadly.
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Wild Seed received many positive reviews, especially for its style, with the Washington Posts Elizabeth A. Lynn praising Butler's writing as "spare and sure, and even in moments of great tension she never loses control over her pacing or over her sense of story." In his survey of Butler's work, critic Burton Raffel singles out Wild Seed as an example of Butler's "major fictive talent", calling the book's prose "precise and tautly cadence," "forceful because it is focused" and "fictively superbly effective because it is in each and every detail true to the character's lives." In his 2001 book How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, famed science-fiction writer Orson Scott Card used passages from Wild Seed's opening paragraphs to illustrate principles of good fiction writing (e.g. how to properly name characters, how to keep the reader intrigued) as well as of good speculative writing (how abeyance, implication, and literalism may work together to produce fantastical realities that are nevertheless believable).
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The novel was well received. Greg Herren, for Reviewing the Evidence, found that the "suspense gradually builds until the reader cannot help but turn the page, regardless of the time" stating that Hillerman is "a master of character, scene, and plot", concluding that "what makes Skinwalkers so outstanding, for me, is that it takes the reader inside the world of the Navajo reservation". Alicia Karen Elkins, for Rambles magazine, stated that she "could not put this book down and read it completely in one sitting", finding that it "will keep you edge of your seat and amaze you with unexpected twists" and that "the writing is lively and extremely descriptive"; concluding "I highly recommend it for anyone with an interest in Native American folklore or culture". Kirkus Reviews finds this joining of two detectives does not diminish the series, and this novel has tautly orchestrated tensions: > When fictional sleuths from different series join forces, the effect is > usually shallow and gimmicky--as in the many recent collaborations of Bill > Pronzini, for instance.
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Budrys faulted in particular Herbert's decision to kill Paul's infant son offstage, with no apparent emotional impact, saying "you cannot be so busy saving a world that you cannot hear an infant shriek". After criticizing unrealistic science fiction, Carl Sagan in 1978 listed Dune as among stories "that are so tautly constructed, so rich in the accommodating details of an unfamiliar society that they sweep me along before I have even a chance to be critical". The Louisville Times wrote, "Herbert's creation of this universe, with its intricate development and analysis of ecology, religion, politics, and philosophy, remains one of the supreme and seminal achievements in science fiction." Writing for The New Yorker, Jon Michaud praises Herbert's "clever authorial decision" to exclude robots and computers ("two staples of the genre") from his fictional universe, but suggests that this may be one explanation why Dune lacks "true fandom among science-fiction fans" to the extent that it "has not penetrated popular culture in the way that The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars have".
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