Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sequences he has ever penned, galaxies swoop in and out of file cabinets and the sun rapidly mitotes into a fetus while, for background music, a typical Python "French" accent promises to "explain it all for you tonight." So broad are the cinemographic possibilities that the movie's structure, crisp at first, ends up as a loose collection of scattershot satires...
Modern italic can be written with any instrument from a simple crayon to a 24-karat gold fountain pen (if it will write). But it looks best when written with a broad-edged pen. If the nib is crisp and the ink flow and paper are just right, italic writing gives its practitioners an almost sensuous pleasure...
...PROSE resembles Hemingway's with crisp dialogue alternating with action described in clean, factual, concise sentence. All of the stories are short and the best ones achieve a density of expression that almost approaches poetry. As in Hemingway, crucial information often has to be drawn from understated detail, especially in the stories openings: Pancake hits the ground running and his beginnings are as tightly packed with meaning as his epiphanic endings. A story as concise as "The Honored Dead" has to be re-read at least once: a tour de force of technique, the story explores the complex mixture...
...them shoot their way into the -government? No dice!" That was the crisp response of Secretary of State George Shultz last week as he traded views with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee over the nettlesome issue of El Salvador. For what seemed to be the umpteenth time, some of the committee's members, led by Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa and Democratic Congressman Stephen J. Solarz of New York, had suggested that the Reagan Administration agree to negotiations on power sharing between the beleaguered Salvadoran government and opposing Marxist-led guerrillas...
Vice President George Bush was in West Berlin, the Communist-encircled outpost where American leaders often enjoy ovations. In the mirrored ballroom of the Inter-Continental Hotel, his delivery was crisp, almost inspirational, as he told some 650 politicians, businessmen and military officers what they wanted to hear. "We are not preparing to fight a nuclear war. We are preparing to deter war. An attack on you is an attack on us." The U.S., said Bush, is ready "to consider and explore any and all reasonable Soviet offers at the negotiating table in Geneva...