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...pride roughly comparable to that of someone setting up an old friend with a really hot blind date. iTunes needed to download a chunk of code before it would talk to the iPhone (as if it wanted to change before it met that really hot blind date). After a brisk two hours negotiating the activation protocol for iPhone reviewers...
...expert in the manners, morals and habits of the American Protestant patriciate of a half-century ago. One also imagines him being slightly afraid of his high-wattage cast, incapable of molding them into an ensemble. Only Streep, appearing in a couple of scenes, hints at the sort of brisk, no-nonsense playing that might have rescued the movie...
...soon, it was time to move on. The stall was doing brisk business, and someone else wanted our stools, but we weren’t too upset. After all, lunch was only a few hours away...
...liquor arm United Spirits, the biggest whisky maker in India, and the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) have been doing a brisk trade in bitter remarks, each charging the other with unfairly blocking its exports. Hardly the spirit, given that "scotch whisky is enjoying its best growth prospects for a generation," according to Alberto Gavazzi, global brands director for Diageo, the producer of Johnnie Walker...
...Mighty Heart, he has enlisted the star power of Angelina Jolie (and her partner Brad Pitt as producer) to re-create the ordeal of Mariane Pearl, wife of Daniel Pearl-the Wall Street Journal reporter in Pakistan who was kidnapped and eventually beheaded by Islamic terrorists. The film is brisk and well told, and Jolie's bold, harrowing performance is altogether honorable-yet some overarching unity is lacking: ultimately, A Mighty Heart doesn't become more than an accumulation of dread and dreadful deeds...