Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speak of peace, concord and hope," said John Paul, his white cape billowing in a brisk wind. Speaking Spanish as he did throughout Central America, he told the audience assembled on the tarmac that he had come "to share the pain" of Central America and that he hoped to provide a voice for the searing images of daily life, for "the tears or deaths of children, the anguish of the elderly, of the mother who loses her children, of the long lines of orphans, of those many thousands of refugees, exiles or displaced persons searching for a home...
...that OPEC has lost its grip on oil prices threw the financial markets into turmoil. Gold, a favorite inflation hedge, plunged to $408.50 per oz., down nearly $100 in eleven days, before rebounding a bit to $415 at week's end. On Wall Street, the prospect of a brisk economic recovery unleashed another stampede in the stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at record highs on four consecutive days, finishing the week at an alltime peak...
...spreading the good munch via Jack's Corn Crib, a planned chain that has already opened two outlets in Manhattan and expects to have at least 100 franchised cornporiums in business by 1985. Klugman uses no salt in his recipes and a maximum of 5% sugar. He has brisk competition in New York from Popcorn Paradise, which is adopting a movie-palace lobby decor on a moderate scale...
...Kingsley (Gandhi) plays Robert, Patricia Hodge is Emma, and Jeremy Irons is their friend, and they are brisk, expert and rather too much of an ensemble. There is not enough contrast of tone between them. The fault may be not of their making, since they are being asked to play theatrical conventions instead of people. David Jones' direction reinforces the problem: elegantly geometrical in its calculation of cuts and angles, it is uninterested in the higher calculus of the emotions. This all serves the text but not the irresistible demands of the movie medium for emotional intensity. Film finally...
...turn, gets 10% of the catalogue and all of the admission revenues from a hoped-for audience of 7,000 people a day, or 750,000 during the 3½-month New York run, at $4 a head. So far, the market in tickets has not been very brisk. Better one Egyptian boy-king, apparently, than any number of dead Popes...