Word: brief
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...restaurants may make the air in some areas cleaner, and play to specious claims about the dangers of second-hand smoke, it also makes tobacco more mysterious, more difficult to obtain, and makes smoking even more of a symbolic act. Suddenly those secret puffs become not just a brief escape into adulthood, but, more significantly, an act of rebellion...
...After a brief scuffle, Kotowski said he handcuffed Angier and brought him to Somerville Ave. where Harvard Police Officer Curi Gauvreau had caught Evans...
Rigor is certainly what Clinton can expect. Stephens, 47, is a lifelong Republican with impressive academic and prosecutorial credentials. After a boyhood on an Iowa farm, he studied at Harvard College and Law School and at Oxford. He spent a brief time in private practice, became an assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal under Leon Jaworski and rose steadily through top-level posts at the Justice Department and White House. During one tour, he was Ronald Reagan's deputy White House counsel, the job the late Vincent Foster held under Clinton at the time of his death last July...
Particularly wonderful is the all-too-brief treatment of the love affair between Gareth (Simon Callow of "A Room with a View") and Matthew (John Hannah in his screen debut). Hannah's reading of W.H. Auden's great love poem, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" at Gareth's funeral is one of the most poignant moments ever captured on celluloid...
Half an hour late, as dusk came to the PiazzoVecchio, Zubin Mehta appeared on stage and theentire crowd applauded. He gave a brief speech inItalian which some friendly men next to ustranslated...