Word: brisking
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...unpredictability of the chickens. Some fly straight and true, or reasonably so, like Kung Flewk. Some refuse to fly at all, even with encouragement from a plunger. Some shift into reverse on takeoff. Since chickens are not natural aviators at the best of times, in a brisk breeze they can be pitiful to behold...
...tries to find the cinematic equivalent of oral tradition and legend making, or, less fancily, yarn spinning. This means that the film's pace is leisurely and digressive; dramatic incidents that might be told melodramatically are rather flat. The result may be disappointing to people expecting the brisk cheekiness of the first Butch-Sundance adventure...
...mother of a struggling Norwegian immigrant brood. Unfortunately, the only thing she gets right is her accent. Ullmann is no singer, and she croaks out her numbers with nary a trace of that speechifying grace that Rex Harrison brought to My Fair Lady. With her disconcertingly low voice and brisk delivery, it sometimes seems as if she is barking out orders, like some displaced storm trooper...
...sunny Friday afternoon, thousands of Chicago motorists lucky enough to get off to a fast start on the long Memorial Day weekend streamed out along Interstate 90. Brisk winds rippled the green field between the crowded highway and O'Hare International Airport. Half an hour later, the field was shrouded in black smoke, and firemen held hoses on a flaming aircraft engine. Police and other emergency workers stepped gingerly through scattered and smoldering wreckage, looking for signs of life. They found none...
...first fruits of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty were harvested last week. In a brisk but colorful ceremony at the parking lot of a former post exchange, Israeli officers formally returned the town of El Arish, the capital of the Sinai, to Egyptian sovereignty. Honor guards of both armies stood stiffly at attention as the blue-and-white Israeli flag was lowered and then replaced by the red, white and black Egyptian tricolor. Military bands played the national anthems of both nations as Israel honored its treaty commitment to return to Cairo's authority an 80-mile strip along...