Word: brisker
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There's nothing deep or emotionally grand about this enterprise, but Star Wars never occupied that part of the cinema spectrum. The series was--and remains--Lucas' elaborate reconstruction of his Saturday-matinee memories and fantasies. This time the energy level is higher, the tempo brisker; a nice sense of doom crawls up the spine of the narrative. The leaden Menace was full of the posturing that two hostile nations engage in while marshaling their forces. In Clones the war breaks...
...Demand for these events has been tremendous. "Tickets have been flying out of the door," says Nigel Redden, director of the Lincoln Center Festival. Sales for the Pinter shows, he reports, are brisker than for last year's Bolshoi visit, its first in a decade. Redden says he received a telephone call from an excited Israeli before the Pinter Festival had even been publicized - the man wanted details so he and 18 friends could book flights to New York...
...more leisurely speed, Mehldau's improvisational line exhibits an overall concern with counterpoint, which at once indicates his post-bop tendencies and classical training. But here they tend to be more appropriate, as Mehldau's impromptus have a tendency to fall into the trap of classical meter at brisker tempos...