Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unannounced panelist, former prisoner Elaine Hyde, followed Johnson with a brief account of her experience in prison...
Miami has already become a chic hangout for the international set. Foreign photographers have turned Miami into the third busiest fashion spot, after Paris and New York. Italian designer Gianni Versace became so enamored during a brief stopover that he is spending millions to renovate a $2.95 million villa on touristy Ocean Drive in South Beach. "It was really love at first sight," he says. At the dinner hour one evening, Maguy Le Coze, co-owner of Miami's chic Brasserie Le Coze, was recounting tales of European friends who are investing in Miami, including a jet-set residential club...
...scientific and religious communities have overwhelmingly rejected charges of brainwashing as lacking merit. In a brief filed with the California Court of Appeals in 1987 (Molko v. HSA-UWC), both the American Psychological Association and the American Sociological Association characterized the allegation of brainwashing by the Unification Church as "simply a negative value judgment in scientific garb...
...another brief filed in the same case by the National Council of Churches (and other organizations representing more than 100 million Christians in America) it was stated: "the accusations of brainwashing leveled against the Unification Church would indict nearly all religions, because at its core, the theory implicates religious faith itself...
...production, by Jon Jory, the artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, needs polishing. Most scenes are cinematically brief, but the scene changes are long and noisy. Both acts end with poignant, diminuendo remarks that plainly do not strike audiences as a climax, so applause, although sustained, is painfully slow in coming. While Anne Pitoniak's Du is a tonic blend of folksy approachability and rigid religion, Julie Boyd's Keely seems far better educated and statelier than the beer-loving bar veteran and blue-collar knockabout sketched in the text...