Word: brief
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...when Louis and August Lumiere showed a Paris audience a brief film of workers leaving a factory, cinema officially began. (They exhibited the train film a few months later.) France also nurtured film's first artist, Georges Melies, a master conjurer who, in the 1900 One Man Band, plays six members of a band and the conductor--all in one shot. Melies made color films; the Germans, in 1905, made talking pictures. Italians developed the historical epic. The French persuaded Camille Saint-Saens to compose a score for a 1908 film and Sarah Bernhardt to bless the infant medium with...
...colorful candy land; her bandleader, John McDaniel, upbeat and affable. O'Donnell opens the one-hour show with a brief monologue, then takes a seat to joke her way through the morning papers and play host to an impressive line-up of celebrities and musical acts. During her first week she introduced nearly every one of her guests--who included Penny Marshall, Fran Drescher, George Clooney, Toni Braxton and Dennis Franz--as "my buddy...
...sooner had the two candidates recorded their opposition than Newt Gingrich, who has lately been making some Republicans nostalgic for that all too brief period when his policy was to remain in the background, said that if his half-sister, a lesbian, married another woman he would not attend the ceremony. In other words, he publicly turned down an invitation he hadn't been sent to a hypothetical event that could not, at this point, legally take place...
...immediate wake of his stunning upset, however, a broad spectrum of homegrown and foreign skeptics fear that Netanyahu will pay lip service to the idea of peace but put the process on permanent hold. "It seems that the ripeness for a revolution was brief," says Ron Pundik, an Israeli negotiator at Oslo, "and the window of opportunity was open only temporarily." At 4 a.m. Thursday, after the tally turned decisively in Netanyahu's favor, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat issued orders to his aides not to comment on the outcome. "He knew that if they spoke, they'd express their frustrations...
...most important thing you may have learned at Harvard is how to keep on learning," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said during his brief address...