Word: hairbreadth
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...Rollie Fingers (the sale of their contracts was nullified by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn). So generously treated that they were nicknamed the Gold Sox, the team never won a World Series for Yawkey but did take three American League pennants (in 1946, 1967, 1975), last year coming within a hairbreadth of winning one of baseball's most thrilling series...
Certainly anyone can respond to recycled banalities masquerading as conversation, an edgy concern with appearances, the nose sniff of gossip and the binocular gaze at just who is where on the money-and-status escalator. Ayckbourn has honed this knowledge to hairbreadth comic precision...
...Forces. That signaled the city's hairbreadth escape from defaulting on its many loans, bonds, bills and other debts. Once again New York City had been fatally caught between two irreconcilable forces. On one side was Congress, which is not inclined to go to New York's rescue unless city officials dramatically demonstrate that they have stopped their high-spending ways. On the other side were the powerful city unions, some of which have threatened to shut down New York with a general strike if officials cut the budget too deeply. The squeeze pushed the city closer than...
...appear on rosters for such trips: a cool demolition expert (Richard Harris), his good-humored sidekick (David Hemmings), a terse, harried Scotland Yard operative (the excellent Anthony Hopkins), and an unflappable ship's captain who keeps his turmoil to himself (Omar Sharif). It is usually clear in these hairbreadth holocaust excursions exactly how they are going to turn out. The object is to obscure the inevitable, an exercise that Lester performs with great skill...
...trio start to rob small-town banks. They do it with matter-of-fact efficiency, and Altman treats them in the same even way. He is not concerned with the mechanics of the heist but the social subcurrents beneath it. Almost anyone else would have included a lot of hairbreadth getaway sequences, but Altman concentrates on portraying the glowering emptiness that daily confronts the robbers. He is especially good at rendering the sort of foggy existential desperation that surrounds his characters and lies at the core of the doomed affair between Bowie and a rather vacant girl called Keechie (Shelley...