Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movies are sitting tighter these days than they have for some time. Hollywood went through scare periods when it was not clear what could be sold to the public, if anything. Old tyrants retired, sank and died; every year some old lion still in power was being proclaimed the last tycoon. Television killed the first set of old men, angry stockholders and ravenous conglomerates killed the second. Louis B. Mayer, the feared stable master of the great M-G-M dynasty, went under in 1951; Darryl F. Zanuck, truncheoning all comers, held out twenty years longer, finally going under with...
...France, where museum security is tighter than Italy's, most of the recent thefts have been from private collections; the preferred targets are tapestries and minor (hence easily negotiable) "blue chip" Ecole de Paris pictures: Rouault, Modigliani, Vuillard, Bonnard, Cezanne and the like. Major art thefts, whether for ransom or resale, have declined in England over the past few years, thanks to the formation of Scotland Yard's highly efficient art squad in 1968. "It simply does not pay criminals to steal works of art in this country," says London Art Dealer Hugh Leggatt. "The police in Britain...
...excellent--clearly the best Pudding Show in the last three years and possibly longer. It's everything it should be, with a very funny script that dips from fairly sophisticated Intellectual humor to suggestive double entendre. Mad About Mintz is undergoing some cuts which should make its first act tighter, but what's chiefly interesting about it is that it isn't a formula show the way the Pudding is, and that it was put together by students on a low budget without the certainly of trips to Bermuda. If you want to do something for the aid of Harvard...
PROCEDURE. Many critics pointed out that the Interior Department depends too much on the oil industry for information. Senators Hollings and Tunney suggest that the Federal Government take responsibility for exploring before offering offshore leases for auction. Alternatively, New York State officials suggest that there be much tighter federal controls on all offshore-oil development...
...Friend Flicka." There are ten songs in the long first act, and nine in the second act, which is only 40 per cent as long. Some of these--"Power to Persuade" and "Team Song are the standouts--are clearly what makes the second act so much tighter than the first. The script is not quite funny enough--though its effort is respectable and never embarrassing--to carry too snany words without music. "You want me to cut off my toe for you?" one of the characters asks. "No, I'll cut it off for you" is the groan-worthy reply...