Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attendant at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology sprayed mace at two visitors from Trinidad after a brief verbal altercation on Saturday afternoon...
Students returning from Thanks-giving with their families were treated to a brief snowfall last night...
Shepard, of course, has lately turned most of his attention to Hollywood, acting in movies (The Pelican Brief, Steel Magnolias), directing a couple (Far North) and being the husband of a Hollywood star, Jessica Lange. His new work, which opened last week off-Broadway under Shepard's own direction, seems an exercise in nostalgia for his old, avant-garde self. The plot is purposely spare, and the dialogue maddeningly elliptical, rising only to an occasional pretentious epigram: "People drifting apart -- it's worse than death...
...After a brief stint as a private lawyer following his graduation, Griswold became an attorney with the Solicitor General's office. He quickly rose to the position of Special Assistant to the Attorney General...
...seem, to most readers, groan inducing: "What is time?" The query comes from a narrator whose name is Peter (a detail he drops a third of the way through his story). Now a grown man, he looks back on himself at age 14, an orphan who, after a brief lifetime in various institutions, has unexpectedly been sent to Biehl's Academy, a prestigious school on the outskirts of Copenhagen...