For my part, I like live theater best when it's taut, concentrated and intimate.

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But it's the feeling that occurs before the end, when it's taut and undecided and not yet cruel, which makes games so addictive and worthwhile.

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Mr Ignatieff's writing, though taut in reportage, sags into the cloudier sort of lit-crit talk when he turns analytical.

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Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's relationship with the West has often been strained, but even by his standards, ties with the U.S. are currently more taut than usual.

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Costumed for most of the play in widow's black, her body taut, almost wired, hands stretched, her face blanched with sorrow, she lives every moment of this tragedy with an intensity rarely encountered in the theatre.

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It's built of basically the same material as the Droid, but there's something almost kind of "taut" about the phone, where when you thwack it with a finger it resounds like a drum.

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The beats, by young comers like Hit-Boy and Kenoe, are taut and lively, a good match for Minaj's manic spirit and comic zingers -- and comic anti- zingers.

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