Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since September, 300 government soldiers have been killed or seriously wounded while some 450 have been taken prisoner. One humiliating incident occurred two weeks ago in the southern town of Anamorós when, after a brief firefight, an army company of 135 men surrendered. Though the rebels announced that they would return the soldiers through the International Red Cross, they pointedly added that they would keep an arsenal that included 153 assault rifles, four M-79 grenade launchers, a 90-mm cannon and 50,000 rounds of ammunition...
With the home team playing a tight, cautious game meant to slow down the faster-skating Crimson, the visitors took a while to retaliate. But after Brown survived a brief two-man Harvard advantage early in the second period, Tim Smith set up Tony Visone for the equalizer with a pretty cross-ice pass...
...session, the counselors distributed a brief evaluation form, consisting of questions such as. "Was the information presented in too much detail. Too little?" All the students completed it anonymously and the counselors said that they have received almost entirely positive responses...
...unexpectedly perfect words pop up like Kleenex in the midst of an unremarkable description. We become reacquainted with the "nose" of a pencil, and the "dish rinser" that one uses to "spritz" the dinner plates. We need these sparks of craft because many of these thirteen stories are so brief as to be almost like SAT exercises in creative writing (write a scene between two or three closely related characters, starting in the middle. Be sure to include subtle details to establish time, place, and motivation. Stop after you have finished work on this section...
...promotional association with such predecessors as Gregory's Girl and Local Hero. For it lacks the wayward exuberance and quirkiness of those small delights. No inexplicable motorcyclist or man in a penguin suit is permitted to wander through Director Duffell's tidy frames. Nor are any brief, enlivening emotional squalls that might stir up those placid waters. The result is rather like a nice day at the beach: nothing wrong with it, but nothing much you can remember about it either. Sheer inoffensiveness should not be enough to recommend a film; if that is one's only...