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...gave ground to trucks and scooters amidst the harum-scarum commerce practiced in stalls up and down the Old Islamic Quarter. On Friday hundreds of men and women streamed out of Al-Hussein Mosque, and while I sat and watched, drinking apple tea, a watermelon cart owner did a brisk business selling his wares to the parched masses...
...Sweet Smell" is noir, oui - but as brisk as the winter nights on which Sidney refuses to wear a topcoat. Mackendrick, whose aim was to play it "fast and high," wastes no time on dead spots for the audience to mull over what's just been said. The actors, servants of the superb dialogue, speak it quickly and crisply, without trying to find meaning in Method or profundities in pauses. Lancaster and Curtis never go outside their roles to remind us that they're really lovable scamps on a holiday in the sewers; that may have been what kept their...
Ryosuke Hashiguchi's Hush! quietly made its way to Cannes last year, but it may yet do brisk box office around Asia. Think of it as a reworking of Madonna's The Next Best Thing, only better: this version swaps tack for tact. Hashiguchi, the Japanese director of many gay-themed films, doesn't play the camp for lame laughs but to showcase family values...
...though, while The River's Tale sails along at a brisk pace, with carefully laid historical context and compelling anecdotes, it lacks real sparkle. And, for all the interesting characters Gargan introduces us to, we never really get to know the person we most want to meet: the author himself...
...numbers don't lie, right? Because right now all the right ones are up, carrying with them Wall Street's hopes that a brisk economic recovery is finally here. Numbers like 54 - Friday's ISM manufacturing sector index for February, signaling the first growth in America's battered industrial sector since July 2000. Or 58 - Tuesday's ISM index for the services sector, highest since November 2000. Or 1.4 percent - revised GDP growth for the fourth quarter of 2001. Or 0.4 percent - which is how much consumer spending and personal income both rose in January, the biggest rise in eight...