Word: brisking
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...young artist (Robert Wolders) is unaccountably smitten by her, and they begin one of those romances that require them to wander around a lot of picturesque locations - Yucatan, in this case. The antique splendors of Chichen Itza make the passions of Interval seem petty indeed, but so would a brisk round of Parcheesi...
...know whether the album's good or not. It's fine, probably better than Paul Simon. Individually every single song has something to recommend it, from "Take Me to the Mardi Gras"'s bass picked guitar lines (one of West Indian music's essences), to "Was a Sunny Day"' brisk, chopped rhythms, to the full guitar chords, electric guitar fills, and the bass riff on "Learn How to Fall." It's just that whatever crux there is to this record is found on four songs...
...brisk young Nixon men. The brusquely efficient cop. The precise and credible-sounding veteran of the CIA and FBI. All contented with their anonymity only a year ago, they now slipped one by one into a central seat facing seven U.S. Senators ranged along a green-felt-covered table. They braced as the red signal lights of the television cameras blinked on - and then they be came instant principals in a fateful na tional drama in which the political survival of the President is at stake...
...simply interrupt the narrative flow. The music was composed by Michael J. Lewis and he has the soaring melodic imagination of a computer. The lyrics, supplied by Anthony Burgess, lean more toward economy than eloquence, and while Burgess's adaptation of the main body of the text is brisk and fluently idiomatic, it is emotionally reserved and poetically undernourished...
...MOST POWERFUL works of the exhibition are a series of brisk sketches and tense, tormented oils done during the fatal illness of his mistress Valentine Gode-Darel in 1914 and 1915. Hodler is obsessed with death throughout his career--the death of an earlier mistress in 1909 had been captured in a Munch-like oil full of looming and vertiginous space. Through the series, the curved, living lines of the woman's face grow harsh and geometrical, until a final version shows the corpse, bony and stiff, with the bedclothes around it indicated by a chaos of loose lines...