Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your reviews only jeopardize that freedom, and cannot, within the space allotted, any any true insight into the "innovative works" you hope to promote interest in. The format of a brief newspaper review, as a guide for the theater-goer, is ideal for the more commercial productions in the houses, or at the Mainstage and Agassiz, but in the name of your own intent, do not become faulty guides to the Ex, where the audience members' greatest delight is in finding their own way. James J. Marino...
...House erred badly by overdirecting: rather than making it possible for Brokaw and his crews to tape what Bush does best -- chew the fat with advisers for hours on end -- the White House allowed the cameras to record only the first three or four minutes of each meeting. These brief segments produced conversations that seemed stilted and staged...
...follow-up. On the show, Bush's eyes may have seemed to glaze over when Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter presented him with a copy of the new farm bill, but the President is more able than most politicians to argue the finer points of crop subsidies. There was a brief glimpse of Bush hunt-and- pecking on an electric typewriter, but the script failed to make clear that he comes to work most mornings with an armful of thank-you notes, typed up the night before in his private study in the White House's second-floor residence...
...bestow it lightly. Laughter, the same story. She covers her mouth when she laughs, as though to hide the fact that she is tickled about something. "If there is some major misconception about me," she says very seriously, "it is that I'm always serious." And then, a brief smile...
...hour session will feature a 20-minute speech by Clark, two brief addresses by Professors of Law Christopher Edley and David Rosenberg, followed by a question and answer period...