Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...empty beer cans. The town fathers celebrated Grafton's centennial last month by ordering up 48,000 cans of "Hundertjahriges Jubilaum Beer" (the town has a lot of German descendants) from a Minnesota brewer. They ordered another 12,000 empty cans as souvenirs. The beer has done a brisk business at $1 per can, but the empties, at the same price, have done even better, thanks to ads placed in two magazines published for beer-can collectors. The demand proved so great that a tiny black market sprang up, with empty beer cans changing hands at $5 each. "There...
...past ten years photography has swept, as it were, from the magazine to the museum. There is no debate left on whether photography is an art; it is universally accepted as such, although the arguments for this or that aesthetic of photography are as brisk and rancorous as ever. Avidly collected, taught on an industrial scale, buoyed up by reams of historical exegesis and critical debate, photography in America has moved into the public eye, rather as painting did in the 1960s, and no American institution has done more to create this state of affairs than the Museum of Modern...
...deferral of a decision on the neutron bomb, moves that Carter hoped might bring some corresponding gesture from Moscow, the Russians have shown little flexibility in SALT or in the talks to control conventional arms in Central Europe. Instead, they have continued expanding their military arsenals at a brisk pace. They also concealed sophisticated bugging equipment inside the U.S. embassy in Moscow and launched a campaign of harassment against American businessmen and journalists...
...Farnsworth finds himself quite ill at ease in his new surroundings. He can't get used to the pretensions assumed by the late Farnsworth and forgoes formality as he athietically dashes about the mansion delivering brisk "hiyas" and "how-ya-doin's" to a staff of bewildered servants. Especially amusing is the scene in which Joe exhorts his board of directors to act like a winning football team and give in to consumer demands, forsaking short-term profits for an ultimate "victory...
...visitors to the Chicken Ranch in La Grange, Texas, who thought it was a competitor of Colonel Sanders would have been in for a surprise. Known as "the best little whorehouse in Texas," and celebrated under that title in a current Broadway musical hit, the Chicken Ranch did a brisk business until a Houston television station broadcast an "exposé" about it five years ago. That shamed the state authorities into shutting it down. Last September a shrewd lawyer moved the Chicken Ranch, virtually intact, to Dallas, where it became a sort of disco restaurant serving Spanish chicken, Mexican chicken...