| 单词 | brisk |
| 例句 | But as I struggle to keep up with Rani's brisk pace, I start thinking I need to do more than hope. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Raised wooden side-walks caught fire and the wind drove the flames along at a brisk pace. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The wind, brisk before, had worked itself up into a temper. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She rode out the gate at a brisk trot, ermine cloak streaming behind her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Though the day is bright for a change, it is particularly cold, brisk air stinging his ears. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It is a poor and working-class neighborhood, and in the late 1990s, the drug trade in the area, particularly on Westchester Avenue and one street over on Elder Avenue, was brisk. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She set a brisk pace, so that anyone who saw them would think they had someplace to be and the right to be where they were. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z After the brisk man left, the boss rushed out to borrow money to make the check good. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At six-thirty on a brisk Thursday morning, the ground still frozen hard, Gaylord Stuckey walked out on the boardwalk to the largest of the pools, expecting to have the place to himself. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Theon put his heels into Smiler and rode through at a brisk trot. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The boss had to answer a lot of questions and the brisk man wrote down the answers in spaces provided on a printed form. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Makes me nervous,” he said, finding the cloth on his desk and giving his glasses a brisk rub. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “The Box, shuck-face, the Box!” was all Alby said before he set off for the middle of the Glade at a brisk pace that almost looked to Thomas like panic. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The coffee shops were doing a brisk business, and street musicians filled the air with the sounds of guitar, lyre, panpipes, and armpit noises. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Both of them felt brisk and hopeful and alive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The blue willows spiraled in the brisk, warm wind. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Gathering the reins in his right hand and the leads in his left, Ser Roily set off at a brisk trot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We set a brisk pace, walking what felt to be great distances away from home, slowing only when the path became steeper. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z A brisk November wind tugged at his jacket, and he pulled his cap down over his forehead. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But she was surprised how easily it came to her, the brisk voice of the no-nonsense nurse. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Yet, as much as she hated it, it was better to be outside in the brisk sea air than trapped indoors behind the Academy's suffocating stone walls. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Then he smiled, and when a tap came at the door, called out in a loud, brisk tone, “Herein!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Dany set off through the tall grass at a brisk pace. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As they leave Havana, a brisk rain falls, rattling the tin bus. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The nurse was about as old as Mrs. Coulter, Lyra guessed, with a brisk, blank, sensible air; she would be able to stitch a wound or change a bandage, but never to tell a story. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Just after sunrise, Rat said, she came trooping in through the wire, tired-looking but cheerful as she dropped her gear and gave Mark Fossie a brisk hug. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Cathcart responded smartly, swallowing hard, and turned in a brisk manner to his chauffeur and his meteorologist. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Outside the night air is brisk, but when we enter Namontack’s house it is toasty warm from a fire in the middle of the dirt floor. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Even the squawking of the rainbowed birds was brisk and the stars were hard pinpoints in the sharp night. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He sent his long whip-lash cracking over their heads; then with another crack and a yell he started the company off again at a brisk trot. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She and her aunt picked their way across the cobblestones, avoiding the horses with their brisk clippity clops and the boxy black cars with chauffeurs in patent-brimmed caps. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon reflected over the lake, which sat still in the darkness of the brisk night. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Fierce, hard — my sneakers slap the tar — swift, brisk. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack carries me away, his strides long and brisk as he steps onto the sidewalk. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She clapped her paws together in a brisk manner, urging her companions to resume the task. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His Christmas dinner was gone in three bites, and dessert was skipped in favor of a brisk two-mile run. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z ‘And carry the captain’s grog? And be brisk and useful to him? No, no, my captains want whole boys. So now—go away... please.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside in the brisk air, with a few early songbirds starting up and our eyes getting used to the darkness, I felt a little bit better, like somehow life was going on. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Just after the start, Pollard tucked Seabiscuit in behind early leader Biography, who cut a brisk pace. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think you’re on fire'' She gave the back of his hand a short, brisk, brushing stroke with the flats of her fingers. “ Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Mrs. Murdo was brisk in her manner, and in her person thin and straight as a nail, but she was kind in her unsmiling way. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Dale walked off at a brisk pace, glancing around as if to ensure nobody was spying, and soon passed out of view. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z With a brisk cheery manner she scooped up a handful of soil, rubbing it into her paws to give some extra gripping power. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z At the edge of the trestle, a brisk breeze had whipped up, and the tracks seemed to soar across the sky. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Her voice chilled Amari even more than the brisk wind that blew off the ocean. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The autumn day turns from brisk to cold. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It was eleven in the morning, but business was already brisk. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Long time no see,” Shelly said to my father, and gave him a brisk, businesslike hug. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Ivanito began jumping nervously in place, jumping brisk little jumps like he was trying to stay warm. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigwig, with his usual brisk energy, set to work. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As word spread, a collective sigh of relief seeped through Baltimore’s brisk winter air. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But by now the whole party was moving off at a brisk canter. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z They waited patiently under overcast skies, bundled up against the brisk wind that whipped in from the Potomac River. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z At thirty-five he was already putting on rolls of fat at neck and waistline, but his movements were brisk and boyish. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She took a brisk but voluminous drag on her cigarette. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He was a brisk, pudgy, high-strung person whose movements were swift and certain. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Just below my window were dozens of men and women in full uniform, escorting the bus in at a brisk jog. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z If he closed his eyes, he could see the banners in his mind’s eye, snapping bravely in a brisk north wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He works his way around the car, his movements brisk and deliberate. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes, sir,” replied the rabbit, with a rather pathetic attempt to sound brisk and ready. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl stayed quiet through the journey, never complaining as they maintained a brisk pace, up and down the rocky terrain and then up and down all over again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z We went for walks in the brisk Birmingham air so I could get my strength back, but I tired quickly. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The brisk air of spring did not dispel the stench of engine oil and festering wounds. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A brisk autumn wind was swirling through the battlements. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Even in her eighties, she would walk several miles each day at a brisk pace. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I pull on my powder-blue sweatsuit, my disguise as a non-artist, and go down the four flights of stairs, trying to look brisk and purposeful. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A brisk October breeze stung the tops of his ears as his sneakers crunched over brown and yellow leaves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It's a good idea to keep electronics above -40°C. The temperature today is a brisk -63°C. The battery was big and easy to identify, but I had no clue where the heaters were. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the four would open his or her eyes, and from there the movements were brisk, the house quickly growing loud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z One morning there was a different smell in the air, and the ship was moving oddly, with a brisker rocking from side to side instead of the plunging and soaring. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then, still keeping hold of her arm, he proceeded to lead her at a brisk walk down the line of boys. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it glided down and landed with brisk sweeps of its powerful pinions, and came to a halt on the wooden deck a few yards from Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The clock on the wall tick-tick-ticks in a brisk, even beat. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Behind Dismay was Mr. Johnson, smiling and making for the car with a brisk step. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Roy broke into a brisk jog with Dana no more than twenty yards behind him, cursing and spluttering vile names. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a pause, an indistinct exchange, and then Henry’s brisk voice came on the line. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z At which point Mama said, in a brisk voice, “I’m making cocoa. Goldie, can you help me?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A girl the riders called One Wing Annie did a brisk business despite missing one arm. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt like having a walk in the brisk air, and as I was strolling on the tarmac, I noticed some people standing by the airport fence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, he took us outside to the track—where there was a pretty brisk March wind that cut right through my T-shirt. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z At this came the second blast, louder even than the first, a brisk, sharp blow that rebounded across the whole architecture of the sky, as if the earth itself convulsed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Let’s go, before the sun comes up,” Edwin said, setting off at a brisk pace. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Business was brisk the entire morning, and that was good. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Her pert neat little daemon trotted along at her heels just as brisk and blank as she was. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He set off at a brisk pace, past an empty inn and a few houses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z By way of an adios, Joe tooted his horn and waved gaily at the sheriff and the two Forest Service personnel, then led his cow up the road at a brisk trot. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, after several more turns, the music began to play again, brisk from its fresh winding, and merry. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She lifted her face to the spray, as if the brisk wind could blow the memories away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The fire upon them was hot and brisk and, as I have said, it was a massacre. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He was walking toward me at a brisk clip, hunched beneath the considerable weight of a six- foot log balanced across one shoulder. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the wind was brisk and mean and they had hours in the dark and mud before the return to the Anatomy House. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was May and brisk, almost cold outside. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As I pulled it out, revealing its body to the harsh winter sun, the brisk marine air. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The waitresses were a hard, brisk lot and I was keenly aware of how their attitudes contrasted with those of southern white girls. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, on a brisk September morning, deliverance seemed to be at hand. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A hundred yards or so from the house I became aware of another set of footsteps behind me, even swifter than my brisk pace—some fellow player late for morning rehearsal, I guessed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I liked the open, honest way in which the man talked to me; and, too, the place seemed clean, brisk, businesslike. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The intervening year helped her make the transition to everything but the Virginia heat; many was the night she pined for White Sulphur Springs’ brisk summer nights. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Peaches,” she said, immediately picking up a bowl and spoon; smiling at Isidore, she ate with brisk little animal bites. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Then he took a few brisk steps backward, and slipped into the next large group wandering across the square, letting the crowd pull him away. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Since he would not go backward into the hail of blows Dill stepped forward at a brisk pace and joined her in the pool. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z There is an island washed by the open sea lying off the Nile mouth—seamen call it Pharos— distant a day’s sail in a clean hull with a brisk land breeze behind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The Italian night sky was crisp and brisk, infused with olives and vine. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He planted a brisk kiss on the top of her head and hugged her back awkwardly. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In the grenadier companies you found tall, brisk, powerful fellows, hard-fighting men, always ready to attack. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As he happened to go out now, and as Wemmick was brisk and talkative, I said to Wemmick that I hardly knew what to make of Mr. Jaggers’s manner. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He set off at a brisk waddle, never looking back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tino took off at a brisk walk down the sideline, Victor right behind him. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was May and brisk, almost cold outside. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The Langer See was rough, the wind still brisk out on the water, the scene dark and gloomy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s a little after eight o’clock on a brisk, crisp night inFebruary, so it’s already dark and the stars have started coming out to play. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The pace of progress has continued to be brisk: manned orbital flight; humans orbiting, then landing on the moon; and unmanned spacecraft outward bound throughout the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits were slow and hesitant and Chervil himself seemed unable to rise to his usual brisk manner. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma set a brisk pace, and I struggled along behind with a hamper heavy with cleaned catfish. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a brisk wind coming off the waves, cool and briny. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Such brisk fights or scuffles between children’s daemons were common, luckily, and no one took much notice, but Roger went pale at once. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They bid each other goodbye for the time being, and Moss began the brisk walk back toward the northern end of the building for Mrs. Torrance’s class. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The observation train was, at that moment, just rumbling behind Harry Rantz’s house, the smoke from its diesel engines streaming out ahead of it in the brisk wind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There is a brisk business for Halloween and then these items disappear. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We all sat and watched him slide down the hill, the brisk wind making our eyes water. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She moves at a brisk pace, and it’s difficult to keep up with her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z On the contrary, he probably finds suddenly that it has become an excellent day, the weather remarkably bracing, the time appropriate for a bit of exercise of the old wings, a brisk turn upwind. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagine my father, a portly bear who I have never seen move faster than a brisk walk. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Let’s take it down a notch, please,” I panted, holding my side, and Sahil immediately slowed to what for him was a leisurely pace and for me was still a brisk walk. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The nine of us walked up the sidewalk toward the Federal Building at a brisk pace. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent paused dramatically for a second as the magazine went around, then he plunged into a brisk summary of the problem. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk outside, and the brisk air and gray sky remind me that we’re back home. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The wind was whooshing along noisily and steadily at a brisk twenty-five miles an hour, but gusting to at least double that, and from ever-shifting directions. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Each morning they came around, three brisk and serious men with efficient mouths and inefficient eyes, accompanied by brisk and serious Nurse Duckett, one of the ward nurses who didn’t like Yossarian. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The ladies, since the gentlemen entered, have become lively as larks; conversation waxes brisk and merry. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z We’d moved through NYU’s campus at a brisk pace, our efficiency aided by the fact that it was still early and many students were not yet up for the day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A round-faced blond with a brisk, no-nonsense manner, she was known as a crusader for the rights of women and children—her prosecutorial priorities included sex trafficking, domestic violence, and child abuse. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Then his manner changed and became loud and brisk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They walk with short, brisk steps, yelling for their kids to stay together, to hold each other’s hands, to not get left behind. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Paddles plunging into the water in brisk, even swipes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was only in the Seniors, really, we’d started to appreciate her brisk style. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The train jolts and scrapes and screeches back into motion, the little pile of clothes disappears from view and we trundle on towards London, moving at a brisk jogger’s pace. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Tommen got his pony up to a brisk trot, waved his sword vigorously, and struck the knight's shield a solid blow as he went by. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He heard Garvey still snoring loudly as he crawled out into the brisk air. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A brisk market in these favors emerged, with much trading and dealing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Then Helena comes bounding up the stairs, also with her cheeks blushing, because the air is brisk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z No one can do more than guess what the associated damage would be, other than that it would be brisk and global. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The air was brisk and the conversation silly as we headed for the restaurant. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Now, though, the air turned brisk late in the afternoon. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z There he coined the term physical education and took his appalled young charges on brisk rambles of thirty-five or forty miles over the neighboring mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I ignored them and set a brisk pace, not trying to hide. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The door clicked open, and Doctor Quinn's brisk, dark head appeared in the crack. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “The blacksmith is going to be doing a brisk business in the next couple days.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She strides toward the water, and swims with brisk strokes far out to sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The guards posted at each archway paid them little more than a glance, though a few nodded at Kaz, who kept a brisk pace, his face buried in his collar. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Teenie moved away abruptly and returned to her brisk command of the room. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The president allows a few moments of unrest, and then continues in her brisk fashion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z As Dill walked home, a brisk wind blew, drying the leaves, which skittered and danced in front of him in the moonlit shadows. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I walked at a brisk pace to avoid the others. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Then her mother drew a deep breath, and became brisk. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The feverish summer gave way to fall foliage and brisk mornings, but routines had changed to accommodate the war. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Then from over North Boston way came the brisk rattle of drums. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was now brisk, and Frightful was gone. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The female security officer was brisk and efficient. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He climbed high, found a brisk wind, and sailed down the coast toward Florida. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z At one minute past seven, after a brisk cold walk, she rang the bell of a large, comfortable-looking villa in one of the roads a little way north of Jericho. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They emerged into a brisk wind that made Jon's cloak swirl and snap. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He looked round at his bedraggled, shivering comrades and then at Kehaar, spruce and brisk on the stern. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With short, brisk strokes she evens the broken nail on her left thumb. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The final gathering on Valentine farm took place on a brisk December night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The vacuum cleaner business was so brisk, in fact, that the company that made them opened a branch factory in the town. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Even without rain, the air had a brisk edge to it. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Some are respectably dressed, in tailored Harris tweed coats and matching gloves and tidy no-nonsense hats with small brisk feathers jauntily at one side. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The hangman was doing a brisk trade in murderer’s wash water, but Beetle was at last able to secure a bottle. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A concession stand in the corner did a brisk business in hats and T-shirts and jackets and flags. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was five p.m., but business was brisk. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I sat there as the sky turned black and the air grew brisk. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Many times in the past he had been brisk, distant, removed from them, but now he patted them on the head with just a word and they felt it. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The night air felt brisk as the wintry wind swept down the street. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In Miss Penelope Lumley’s day it was often said that the mark of a good servant was to do his or her job with brisk efficiency while at the same time remaining “invisible.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I go back to my machines and start the brisk trot required to keep them fed with metal. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The soft expression on her face quickly gave way to her usual brisk efficiency. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The brisk walk back to the house was making her too winded to converse intelligently. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Capital boys, aren’t they? I feel quite young and brisk again after that.” said Jo, strolling along with her hands behind her, partly from habit, partly to conceal the bespattered parasol. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Noticing this brisk trade in “fire relics,” some adults joined the business. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z We shook hands and he departed at a brisk pace. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z On a brisk spring evening not long ago, two dozen men and women gathered in the back room of a Manhattan bar to engage in a peculiar ritual known as speed-dating. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z His voice came back at me brisk and cool. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Lee, anticipating a brisk business, brought a big packing case out and put it into the vegetable department. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time, in his kindness, The Giver ended the afternoon with a color-filled memory of pleasure: a brisk sail on a blue-green lake; a meadow dotted with yellow wildflowers; an orange sunset behind mountains. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z She concealed her anguish under the brisk, practical mask of a schoolteacher. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt brisk strokes of his brush across the toe of my shoe. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He deploys high and low culture to brisk effect. ‘Selected Poems,’ by Mark Ford, Covers a Career 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Indeed, Mr. Carter began composing at a brisk pace in the mid-1980s. Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z In two exhilarating sets, the band kept up a brisk, staccato flow, occasionally making a hard swerve from funky pointillism to a kind of speed-demon swing. Steve Coleman, a Jazz Outlier, Rides a Wave of Acclaim 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z “Margin Call,” a brisk boardroom thriller, has definite supporters; but it’s possible that few saw that micro-budget indie, or that people just didn’t want to be reminded of their own financial statements. The Carpetbagger?s 2012 Oscar Predictions 2012-02-24T00:38:40Z Mr. Tetzlaff set a brisk tempo in the first movement of the Mendelssohn. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T22:18:57Z The heat must be brisk, but not too brisk, and you’ll need to adjust it occasionally. Let This Recipe Change How You Cook 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z My sole complaint with this fine, brisk book is with its title. Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z A deeply cozy dish, perfect for the brisk weather. 21 very wonderful vegan dinners from WoonHeng Chia 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Arteta sets a brisk pace for "Alexander," barely letting one disaster hit before another is underway. 'Alexander's' day isn't so terrible, film isn't so great 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The label Unseen Worlds has done brisk trade with timely reissues, including masterly surveys of works by the composer Laurie Spiegel. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Even as MP3s and streaming cornered the digital music market, the site did a brisk business selling turntables and vinyl accessories. Online record retailer Insound to close 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Aurora is opinionated and brisk and not necessarily likable at first. Molly Ringwald Has Advice to Give and a Role to Match 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Here the metropolis is brisk and orderly, if still a bit alienating, epitomized by the neat scaffolding of a fast-rising skyscraper in the distance. Art Review: Photography: A Coming-of-Age Story 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z This was a show about that pursuit, and it was marvelous: brisk and unsinkable, smartly balanced, deftly paced. | Paul Simon: Many Roads to Salvation in Paul Simon?s Latest Show 2011-05-11T07:54:29Z In the lounge car, the bartender, Darrell Bennett, was playing Tracy Chapman and doing a brisk business in Bloody Marys. On a Colorado Ski Trip, Planes, Trains, No Automobiles 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z For those willing to brave somewhat brisk waters, the park’s beach and water rides open for the season this weekend. Spare Times for May 24-30 2013-05-23T22:24:27Z The preposterous narrative might not have seemed quite as egregious had director Jean-Baptiste Léonetti wrung more tension from the loaded scenario or simply moved the mayhem along at a brisker clip. 'Beyond the Reach' plot stretches beyond the pale 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The one to the right is bundled up in a purple coat that is trimmed with black fur, as if ready to go out on a brisk winter day. Art Review: ?Youth and Beauty? at Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-11-03T14:00:00Z As spy novels go, “The Russian Affair” doesn’t have an especially brisk pulse, and its world is the opposite of glamorous. Newly Released Books 2011-04-20T22:05:44Z Tempi were brisk, which proved a breathtaking challenge for the orchestra's large forces: they rose to it with unanimous adrenalin and finesse. Los Angeles Philharmonic/ Dudamel; OperaUpClose ? review 2011-01-30T00:06:50Z The unfussy but perfectly judged shots, the brisk cutting, the naturalistic sound effects -- it was a master class in how to shoot human beings engaged in desperate struggle. "Southland" finale: TV at its best 2011-03-09T21:02:00Z The tone is celebratory as familiar songs enjoy brisk Southern soul revamps on “A Very McCrary Christmas.” Holiday Tunes That Soothe, Provoke and Share a Joke 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Mr. O’Hara’s brisk production gets the story told, from Harfleur to Agincourt to an uneasy peace. Review: Does Power Corrupt in ‘Henry V’? Absolutely 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z So long as Mr. Le Bon is oozing atop brisk arrangements like this, the specifics of the words don’t much matter. Review: Duran Duran, Yet Again, With ‘Paper Gods’ 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The brisk clarity of the picture seems somehow ruthless. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Over knotty chords and brisk meter shifts, Clement tosses off head-scratchers like “By parting the leaves you meet the sublime/and there a fake you find,” all with an utterly charming nonchalance. Coi Leray Borrows a Hip-Hop Classic, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z There are wonderful details: the cross-stitch of brisk footwork, the precise insouciance with which dancers cross one leg across the ankle of the other, the tilt of pelvis or shoulders or an entire torso. Critic’s Notebook: A Look at This Year’s Broadway Choreography 2014-04-25T22:05:13Z Even "Frozen," which was released in November, was still doing a brisk business early this year. Hollywood is looking to cash in on summer blockbusters 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z He begins with a brisk history of the phrase, which is rooted in Egypt and Turkey, where the military ran everything and nipped the slightest buds of democratic reform. Who Is Really Running the Government? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z “The Box,” at a brisk 70 minutes, is something of a departure. Marcus Gardley’s ‘The Box: A Black Comedy’ Comes to Brooklyn 2014-04-13T21:56:13Z Sir Richard Armstrong conducts a voluptuous but brisk performance, with sinewy playing from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, who also the suite from Lully's Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos, Christine Brewer (Ariadne) et al, Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Armstrong 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z With the mornings brisk and the afternoons temperate, departing at dawn is no longer ideal. In Transit Blog: In Minnesota, a Blast of Fall and an Old Pal 2011-09-06T15:26:33Z This announces, clear as a brisk day, what the viewer should expect in this new season. Smart Watch: "Pose" returns with a season demanding to be seen 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z At the risk of blasphemy, I’ll aver that “An Act of God” the Broadway show is more fun — and certainly a brisker entertainment experience — than “An Act of God” the book. Review: ‘An Act of God,’ With Jim Parsons as an Almighty Comedian 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Business for the kit remained brisk enough to bring back Morini’s senior pasta maker now and then — a win-win for all. Review | With restaurant meal kits, you become the sous-chef 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Otherwise, Benjamin Fingerhut’s documentary is a brisk and absorbing tour of the human ego. | 'Repo Chick': Latest Celebutante Satire Already Out of Date 2011-01-14T01:12:09Z The form has coped by evolving a style in which lyric utterances of a single significance alternate with brisk, less melodic passages or even spoken dialogue in which the plot is explained. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z And though its sedate pace may not seem like much of a workout, tai chi actually burns about the same number of calories per hour as a brisk walk. Urban Athlete: Tai Chi on Riverside Drive 2012-06-14T19:12:04Z Werewolves and roadkill keep business brisk these days at the taxidermy shop that preserved Roy Rogers' horse Trigger. Trigger's taxidermist now busy with TV werewolves 2010-07-22T21:21:00Z Silverman, by contrast, is enthused about the whole career, which he outlines in a brisk and highly readable manner. A new John Cage biography: plenty on the music, less revealing of the man 2010-12-02T00:58:00Z The brisk measurements took all of five minutes but the process was prolonged by a visit from the Public’s Costume Master, Luke McDonough. Learning 'Lear': John Lithgow's Shakespeare in the Park Diary 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Stitch and Amelia begin every day with exercise and, so, on this brisk fall morning, they’re paddling together on the river. ‘Not a Sound’: A thriller worth staying up all night to finish 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Wistrich, who is short, with a crop of grey hair and an air of brisk pragmatism, is based at Birnberg Pierce, a solicitors’ firm renowned for representing Guantánamo prisoners and terrorism suspects. ‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z "It's becoming more and more of a thing," he explains just before his set, as the winds off the north Atlantic whip up a brisk breeze. Norway's Sommerfesten music festival: small and beautiful 2013-07-03T09:41:33Z What Mr. Zimmermann provided instead was fleet, clean and honest playing at a comfortably brisk pace in the outer movements, and a Larghetto of melting sweetness. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Featuring Frank Peter Zimmermann 2012-01-27T22:43:12Z At the hospital, the endocrinologist was brisk, but not unkind. 'I was weak, despairing, confused': did writing a novel make me ill? 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Clocking in at a brisk 100 minutes, “James Brown Wore Curlers” is less a biting bourgeois farce or comedy of bad manners than Reza’s most celebrated plays: It feels slight and hardly packs a punch. Review: In a New Yasmina Reza Play, a Superfan Becomes Celine Dion 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Such characters are drawn in brisk, broad strokes, and with little of the complex ambiguity that fueled the later Harry Potter installments. Book Review: ‘The Casual Vacancy’ by J. K. Rowling 2012-09-27T05:00:00Z It is desperately sad, the more so for Frank's undimmed likability; his altogether admirable daughter is sympathetic while maintaining a brisk, common-sense approach. TV highlights 23/07/2013 2013-07-23T06:00:19Z It is a brisk autumnal morning, and in a hotel in London, Wells, 47, nurses a hot chocolate. Dolly Wells: 'As a heterosexual woman, you get your approval through other women' 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s brisk and fresh, yet richly textured, with dry, stony, lightly honeyed flavors, and it’s just 11.5 percent alcohol. 20 Wines Under $20: For When the Weather Is Sultry 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z A brisk study in a woman’s various internal states, the work has a tone that is somewhat too slick. Dance Review: A Physical Choreography, Turning Women Into Targets 2010-12-16T23:06:06Z Here tempos were brisk but comfortable, and greater effort was devoted to nuanced phrasing and beauty of tone than to the exigencies of trendiness. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Mozart at Caramoor 2010-06-27T21:49:00Z On both of her duets with rapper Tyler, the Creator — two brisk cuts, “Neon Peach” and “In the Moment” — Aalegra sings as if she’s in a different recording studio, or even a different dimension. Review | Yes, you can judge this Snoh Aalegra album by its cover 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z In this impish movement, after a needling, jagged theme, the music keeps spinning off into bursts of passagework in which brisk strands of 16th notes are grouped in slurred two-note couplets. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z That third Cleveland account of Schubert’s “Great” is a light, brisk antidote, studious, clean and tidy — ample evidence of what the orchestra’s most underrated conductor achieved. The Cleveland Orchestra, America’s Finest, Restarts Recording 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Though Mr. Wosner took a brisk tempo, his playing was lithe and articulate. | New York Chamber Music Festival: Connecting the Dots Between 2 Composers 2010-09-17T04:00:00Z But Adjei-Brenyah, flitting from perspective to perspective in brisk chapters, assumes all of them easily and fills the characters’ inner lives to the brim, especially those of the incarcerated. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Advertisement The pros at Hampton Court, as elsewhere, are able to introduce the technique and rules in a brisk 50-minute tutorial, leaving the remainder of an hourlong lesson to actually play. ‘Real Tennis’ May Be Obscure, but It Has Fans in Britain 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z In the first-movement cadenza and the brisk finale Mr. Markov let his fiery technique and fully developed sense of showmanship prevail. Music Review: A Little Bit Tchaikovsky, A Little Bit Rock ?n? Roll 2010-10-11T21:09:00Z Thus a brisk recent morning found the designer scrambling under the balky roll-down gate of a raw space in Chinatown with a reporter in her wake. Bricks-and-Mortar Is Dead. Let’s Open a Store. 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z We were looking for the eggs and nests of the rapidly disappearing giant leatherback tortoises along the coastline near Termales — about a 45-minute brisk walk from the hotel at low tide. | The Razor’s Edge 2014-05-07T16:15:52Z Within this forest of bodies the dancing was brisk and forceful, with reaching arms and legs that sliced into space until, suddenly, the performers toppled like logs. Dance Review: Keely Garfield?s ?Twin Pines? at Danspace ? Review 2012-01-23T22:08:42Z Yet listen to his brisk interpretations — coming in about half an hour shorter than a typical cycle — and hear how Mr. Gandelsman doesn’t even attempt to replicate the cello’s character. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z In the suspenseful orchestral exposition of the first movement, Mr. Langrée, taking a brisk tempo, emphasized the contrasts between moments of subdued tension and stormy bursts in the music. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z A more brisk and confident part knows that she didn’t fall into any of her success — though if she’s a pleasure to be around, that doesn’t hurt. Aneesa Folds, Back on Broadway, Is Still Getting Used to This 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z There was also brisk business in paintings of modern Italian life, including images of peasants and what were perceived as other native types. Art Review: ‘The Path of Nature,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-01-24T22:22:49Z Jimmy Carter drew heavily on his diaries to write “Keeping Faith,” which came out a brisk 21 months after he left office. Presidential Memoirs Don’t Always Take This Long to Write 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z That is, it has the clear writing and brisk reportorial acumen of a Michael Lewis book. Review: In ‘How Music Got Free,’ Stephen Witt Details an Industry Sea Change 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z There was a warm air, even though the weather was brisk by desert standards. Palm Springs International Film Festival mixes glitz with bold spirit 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z I went on the group’s first hike of the season, its 18th over all: a brisk, sunny day, with the woods still largely devoid of greenery. Music Shows With a Brooklyn Feel, but Getting to Them Is a Hike 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The tempo is so brisk, the articulation of the strings so snappy, that the movement seems to proceed in an exhilarating swirl of confetti. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The bill that night also included ’s Fifth Symphony, and Mr. Jarvi recreated that juxtaposition here, giving the Fifth an unusually brisk, visceral, texturally transparent account. Music Review: Recreating a Bill of the Obscure and the Familiar 2011-02-25T23:59:27Z Their vivid dialogues unfolded with both verve and spontaneity, at brisk tempos that stopped short of breathless. Music Review: Daniil Trifonov in Piano Debut With New York Philharmonic 2012-10-01T21:49:39Z As usual, there will be an array of classical Indian dance styles on display, from the brisk footwork of Kathak to the sensuous swirl of Mohiniattam. ‘To Master Grace Is Not at All an Easy Task’: Inside Indian Dance 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z On the excellent new album “Quarteria,” his first in six years, he guides a septet through original compositions of playful elasticity and brisk sharpness: The music is diligent and specific with an easy, human flow. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z However unusual, that decision seemed merely an extension of Mr. Koopman’s Bach style, which has typically been brisk, lithe and a bit lightweight. ArtsBeat: When Expectations Mix With Reality 2011-04-16T11:50:33Z Q: “I Am C-3PO” is written with a noticeably brisk pace and conversational tone. C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels talks ‘The Rise of Skywalker,’ his new memoir and four decades of Star Wars 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s a hazy yet brisk record, full of obfuscated post-disco and aching pop melodies. 2010-02-06T05:47:00Z Locke is a brisk writer with a sharp eye for the subtleties of how rural white Southerners tend to act as if their little towns belong to them — and react harshly to black independence. ‘Bluebird, Bluebird’: No black-and-white answers in this tale of race and murder 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Still, the action clipped along at a pleasantly brisk pace, honoring both the play’s bubbly comedy and its serious themes. Brace for fun in Source Festival’s new plays 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Indeed, the pace of acquisitions was steady if not exactly brisk. Sundance Films Fall Short of Expectations 2012-01-27T16:19:50Z The setting: Like a walk-in closet with big windows, so no wonder they do a brisk takeout business. Tiny Rain City Burgers is big on choices 2011-11-10T22:14:09Z The notably brisk production, which opened Tuesday night at Wyndham’s Theater, in London, runs straight through at just under two hours. Review: Kenneth Branagh’s Short, Shallow ‘King Lear’ 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z One brisk October evening, I met up with a contributor to Søderberg’s book called Mikkel Vinther, who is a teacher of social media at a school that offers continuing education to adults. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z "And fetch clean towels!" adds brisk, dutiful Jenny, who is a dab hand at this "uncooperative uterus" lark following a year spent clanging around in the undergarments of every pregnant female in E14. Call The Midwife Christmas special: a refreshingly sincere treat 2012-12-21T13:00:00Z Described in the company’s press release as “interactive candy,” Pez was developed nearly 90 years ago by an Austrian and enjoys brisk sales, with some three billion candies consumed each year in the United States. Dispense With the Jokes Now: Pez Candy Gets Its Own Film 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z But by their brisk and purposeful gait through the Ritz-Carlton lobby. Convention Diary: In a Swirl of Excess, No Guilt Included 2012-09-08T02:16:18Z Split-screen images, brisk editing and digital animation strain to overcompensate for a plot that ricochets in every direction with attendant shifts in mood. ‘The Breakup Guru,’ Starring Deng Chao 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Movement and purpose, are all outward-directed, a brisk negotiation with solid facts such as the "gangplank rooted barge". Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z A brisk walk up Piccadilly ended on a chair in Green Park, where Morpheus claimed me. Critic?s Notebook: In London, Stalking the New 2011-05-25T04:14:30Z Certainly the quartet did not lack for self-confidence, cheekily opening the four-night engagement with Jimmy Giuffre's "Four Brothers," the brisk, technically demanding tune that started it all. 'Four Others' charge hard at Jazz Showcase 2011-04-01T15:34:00Z “Advice for Future Corpses” also offers a brisk cultural history of death rituals and rites, from traditional Tibetan sky burials to our present abundance of options. What the Living Can Learn by Looking Death Straight in the Eye 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z The car chases are brisk and to the point. Refn's 'Drive' Review: Ryan Gosling a Silent Stuntman 2011-10-10T19:50:00Z It was a brisk exchange, but the pregnant woman, Lacey Thomas, was impressed. Carly Fiorina killed in the debates. But how would she do in person? 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Further pieces arrived in brisk sequence, with constant shifts in instrumentation aided by the practiced labors of a well-drilled stage crew. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Review 2011-09-27T20:58:03Z These are songs of brisk efficiency and elegant simplicity. Music Review: Jazz With Updates on the Past and Eyes on the Future 2010-10-26T22:32:00Z Although there was brisk scalper activity around the ticket lines, the hall wasn’t quite sold out. ‘There’s still high culture in America’: Why the National Symphony Orchestra went to Moscow 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z And several grand banquet rooms in the original building attract a brisk wedding business — of which we were evidence. Overnighter: In Colorado, Switchbacks and ‘The Shining’ 2012-10-19T17:12:06Z Try meeting a friend for a brisk walk, or taking up a new hobby like snowshoeing, which burns about 500 calories an hour, or cross country skiing, which burns more than 550 calories per hour. 7 Hacks to Help Your Body Cope With Winter 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Aside from a brisk trade in whole white truffles and stalls selling truffle-flavoured everything, there were exhibitions, crafts and a huge pop-up restaurant tent serving a truffle-heavy menu. 10 of the best winter festivals in Europe: readers’ travel tips 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z They're part of a gallery of more than 100 speaking roles, all significant in their way, and they impose themselves on us in a brisk, lucid story that's superbly edited, designed and photographed. Lincoln – review 2013-01-27T00:06:12Z So far Wiking’s book has been doing best – a brisk trade at 46,000 copies in the UK, according to Nielsen Book Research, and it is being published in 23 other countries. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Slow enough that you’re pretty sure you could overtake yourself at a brisk walk. Start slow, wear what you like, watch out for zombies: a beginner’s guide to running 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z No matter the recipe, a brisk whisking for removing any lumps is required, and resting the batter for at least a short while to let air bubbles subside is recommended. The history of crêpes: A personal and historical exploration of the famous French pancake's origin 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z Murphy’s show professionalises that operation, with Dylan McDermott playing Ernie: a likable, brisk chap who marshals an army of young men and women into the beds of the Hollywood elite from his forecourt. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z In yet another sign of internal disapproval, the Pythons were commissioned to provide material for the 1969 Christmas Night with the Stars, the BBC end-of-year jamboree, but a brisk memo rejects their sketch. Monty Python at 50: a half-century of silly walks, edible props and dead parrots 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Decades ago, transcontinental trains and buses leaving the old Art Deco Greyhound depot a few blocks away, did brisk business. Black Artists Cast New Visions for the Great Migration 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z As complicated as Rodriguez's story is, you tell it at a brisk pace, with the film coming in at under 90 minutes. The Carpetbagger: The Director's Big Challenge: Not Ruining a Cinderella Story 2013-01-31T15:00:40Z It compresses the novel’s plot into a brisk narrative in which the heroine, Kylie Carson, learns that revenge really isn’t a dish best served cold — or hot out of the oven, either. Spare Times for Children for March 28-April 3 2014-03-27T22:34:17Z Add 2 cups chicken broth and bring to a brisk simmer. Recipe: Risi E Bisi 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Characters on The Deuce speak with a brisk frankness that's often absent elsewhere on TV, and that makes it feel like real life. 'The Deuce' Succeeds Because It's Not More of the Same 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z It was interesting, unexpected and tasty; it was not, however, particularly hearty after a full day of hiking in the brisk mountain air. At a Wilderness Resort in Canada, Getting There Is the Only Hard Part 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z After a brisk character-establishing first act, the dramatic flare goes up and the chase is on – and it pretty much stays on for the rest of the movie's entertainingly frenetic running time. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2011-08-27T23:05:46Z On a brisk October morning, people gather in the pre-dawn hours as the sky begins to brighten. Maine’s Acadia National Park and its sunrise-watchers 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z His reconfigured balances and brisk tempos were definite assets, as were the beauty of the orchestra’s string sound and the gleaming solidity of its brasses. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: A Conductor and a Violinist Turn Fresh Eyes on a Beloved Beethoven and a Brahms 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z And despite import restrictions that effectively limit the country to 20 foreign blockbusters a year, American movies are doing brisk business. US, Chinese stars usher in Shanghai film festival 2011-06-11T17:01:06Z The exuberant Ms. Fairchild clung to the edge of wildness in her brisk footwork, trusting her legs to lead the way. Dance Review: City Ballet in ?Jewels,? at David H. Koch Theater - Review 2011-09-29T21:25:15Z “The Rest I Make Up” distills fifteen years of connection between the filmmaker and the playwright into a brisk, teeming, aesthetically rarefied and emotionally raw eighty-minute jaunt into the void. An Extraordinary Documentary Portrait of a Playwright Facing Alzheimer’s Disease 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z In photographs, she always looks as though she’s just returned from a brisk stroll. My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z It was a brisk final chapter, both exciting and sad, as endings tend to be.” In Transit Blog: Crossing the Finish Line 2011-10-24T18:48:16Z The album’s centerpiece, O’Donovan said, is “Elevators,” a brisk waltz that sometimes skips a beat, as if it can’t wait to leap ahead. Aoife O’Donovan’s Songs Poured Out When Touring Shut Down 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z His fretwork was spidery and brisk, and at times his band seemed to be evoking the onrushing tilt of a hiccuping funk sample, racing along the far edge of control. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Restless handheld cinematography and brisk, sometimes almost breathless editing, give a sense of the exhausting rhythm of Nico’s hand-to-mouth existence and the superhuman juggling act required to muster the charisma that used to come naturally. My streaming gem: why you should watch Nobody's Watching 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z I tested the temperature, found it a good bit brisker than I cared for, and went off to explore. A reluctant visitor discovers the unhurried charm of Brittany, France 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, advance ticket sales have been brisk for the upcoming "Sweetener World Tour," which will include a headlining stint at Coachella in April. Ariana Grande and the Beatles have even more in common than sales records 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z She walks through his late years as a much lauded elder of the avant-garde collecting awards and honorary degrees with brisk courtesy. Lighting Out for the Territories With Ornette Coleman 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z It was buoyant and brisk, the unofficial chorus of the audience singing hard through their nicest masks. Review | At the NSO season opener, Noseda leads a show of force and a showcase of talents 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Itzkoff’s narrative is thorough yet brisk as he catalogs the good and the bad that befell Mr. Chayefsky and his passion project. Books of The Times: Dave Itzkoff’s ‘Mad as Hell’ Recounts Making of ‘Network’ 2014-02-24T22:37:52Z Tilson Thomas obtained a tightly structured and unindulgent reading, brisk in tempo, but never at the expense of the work's dramatic array of colour and detail. LSO/Michael Tilson Thomas – review 2012-06-05T14:31:35Z The story moves at an exhilaratingly brisk pace, even as the show itself seems to run at a glacial one. This Week in Fiction: Dave Eggers 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z It is to Adams’s credit that he establishes this lengthy premise with brisk efficiency. A 500-Story Tower Has Collapsed. Can Humanity Be Rescued From the Rubble? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z White Fox, played with brisk, exemplary swagger by Hsu Feng, is a master thief employed by a corrupt landowner who wants to purloin a priceless sutra from a Buddhist monastery. ‘Raining in the Mountain’ Review: A Martial Arts Gem From 1979 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z He was that rarest of drummer breeds — one who also sings lead on occasion, while playing — and the songs he contributed to Hüsker Dü were brisk and to the point. Grant Hart, Hüsker Dü's drummer and inspiration for a rock generation, dead at 56 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z On a brisk November morning, I found myself climbing a fruit tree in my mother’s backyard in suburban Virginia. Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Forced Cinderella to Scrub the Stage Floor’ 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The evening’s conductor was James Judd, a Brit, who was efficient and brisk in a vivid reading of Gershwin’s “An American in Paris.” Review | Looking for the District’s orchestra highlight? Go to Maryland. 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z While it was brisk and pitch-black outside, it was a night full of warmth, life and youthful energy inside U Hall. Sweater Beats bares his soul at U Street Music Hall 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Buoyant auction prices followed by brisk sales at Art Basel Miami maintained the illusion that the art world was somehow immune to the recession. When the Art Stared Back and Other Trends 2010-12-17T14:43:28Z The author’s cunning across two brisk hours is to chart an apparently decent man’s decline into moral depravity: What begins as casual indifference ends up as active participation. A Studio Ghibli Classic Comes to the London Stage 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The fights and shootouts are brisk and brutal. ‘The Hunt’ Review: The Culture War, With Heavy Casualties 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z First off, Christie’s prose is lean and brisk, not so much witty as amused, or intrigued, by the curious ways of human beings. Why ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ still thrills — even if you know whodunit 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Watching his brisk, forward-leaning stride to the piano on Sunday, you braced yourself for a show of steely brilliance. Music Review: Maurizio Pollini Honors Chopin Landmark at Carnegie 2010-04-19T21:51:00Z Ms. Batuman’s search for something more from literature than “brisk verbs and vivid nouns” led her, swooning but alert, into the arms of the great Russian writers: Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Babel. 2010-02-16T22:32:00Z After some gentle calisthenics, lace up your sneakers and follow our flight attendants on a brisk fitness walk to your original destination. Humor: Landed at the Wrong Airport? Imagining a P.R. Response 2014-01-30T15:59:31Z ‘A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity’ and ‘Clean’ The Traverse Theater Company of Edinburgh presents this brisk double bill, directed by Orla O’Loughlin, as part of the Brits Off Broadway festival. Theater Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T22:49:24Z He likened the choreographic process — a brisk two months, which is unusually fast for him — to watching “Betsy” grow up, just as a person would. Neil Greenberg’s New Dance ‘Betsy’ Is a Wild Child 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Allow the milk to come to a brisk simmer for 20 or 30 seconds, turn the heat down to medium-low and cover the pot with the lid on slightly askew. The 20 best Italian recipes: part 3 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z From an opening motif in which a gleaming flute line ascended over contrary peals on a vibraphone, the work played on the tension between stately chord progressions and unpredictable, increasingly brisk rhythmic outbursts. Music Review: Louis Andriessen, Composing Under the Radar 2010-04-19T22:18:00Z The captain, Jacob Knowles, had gotten up at 3 a.m. on a brisk October morning and took his vessel 10 miles into the ocean. TikTok’s Finest Lobsterman 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z The fabric disappears and suddenly dancers — wearing minimal, athletic costumes by Jose Solis — whip across the stage with windmilling arms and explosive jumps until they fall into formation of brisk backward walks in a circle. Review: Gallim’s Dancing Waves of Contractions and Contortions 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Mendelsohn’s cadences in “An Odyssey” are softer and fonder, but there’s a brisk undercurrent. A Father and Son Sail Through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ Together 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Angular passages of spectral music explode through Kushner's brisk dialogue, building to an exquisite, hymn-like climax with the arrival of the stentorian Angel. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z This series of profiles is a brisk and colorful companion if you want to know how several of the best coaches in college hoops operate. ‘Getting to Us’ Review: The Saints of the Sidelines 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, the danger was evident several times, as when Mr. Trifonov pushed the already brisk tempo for the peroration of the finale. Review: Trifonov Caps Rachmaninoff Fest With Pianistic Verve 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z While giving singers expressive leeway, he maintained shape and direction and favored slightly brisker than usual pacing. Review: ‘Tosca’ Catches Fire at the Met Opera 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z That version incorporated the beat-box rhythm, a brisk double time, as part of its beat, and accompanied him with electric-keyboard chords. Arts & Leisure Preview: After Death, the Remix 2010-12-09T16:58:00Z Dry, brisk whites would be fine unless oak flavors are evident. How Erin French Made a Tiny Maine Town a Dining Destination 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Her sentences are brisk twists of the knife; every satirical dart is a bull’s-eye. Three Married Couples and a Cryptic Headmistress Fuel the Suburban Satire of ‘The Pessimists’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z “A popular place on Sundays” was a common way to refer to gay bars, implying that brisk business on the Lord’s Day put an establishment at odds with Christian values. In 1973, an Arsonist Killed 32 People at a Gay Club. Why Has History Shrugged? 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The group swarmed and pulled back, morphing into another Ayler anthem, “Truth Is Marching In,” with a stern, ceremonial prelude and a brisk, coltish middle section, both presented as a revelation. Music Review: Marc Ribot Trio at the Village Vanguard 2012-06-27T20:46:58Z “It’s clever, engaging, brisk and, crucially, unpretentious,” Mike Hale wrote in his review in The Times in 2015. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Victoria’ 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z There’s slightly less ebullience, though similarly brisk business, across Seventh Avenue from Marie’s Crisis at the Duplex, another Village mainstay. The Tipsy Diaries: Getting a Kick From Piano Bars 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z By his generally brisk standards, it's taken Dexter – the titular forensics expert/vigilante serial murderer – a very long time to put an end to Season Four's quarry. Tonight's TV highlights: The Big Silence 2010-10-21T23:04:00Z Acceptances were brisk, and not all that embarrassing. The TV Watch: Veiled Apologies and Few Surprises 2011-09-19T04:28:08Z A brisk, smart provocation of a monologue, it’s about race and identity in American culture, and about the tantalizing impulse to reach across the chasm to the hard-core bigots among us. Review: ‘Just for Us’ Reaches Across the Chasm 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Director DeMonaco fills the screen with arresting images - a flame-engulfed bus seen barreling down the street in the background is particularly haunting - and keeps the pacing brisk enough to prevent dwelling on the plot contrivances. Review: ‘Purge’ sequel provides requisite thrills 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z And then be happy that at the end of a brisk, busy day, there's a meal that asks you to do less, rather than more. Andy Baraghani's crispy mushrooms with soy butter are autumn on a plate 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z For the most part, though, Forster’s docudrama approach is brisk, muscular and scary. World War Z: Brad Pitt vs. the Zombies 2013-06-18T17:42:00Z Now, it seems, her idea has been crucial to the show’s brisk ticket sales. These two artistic directors collaborate on the stage and in life 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z He remained perched on that overhang for over four hours, shivering in the brisk pre-dawn air. Inside the mind of one “American Shooter” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z I also don’t mean that Twitter is stupid but, rather, that it rewards careful phrasing, careful impersonating, brisk readings of cultural attitudes—in short, rhetoric. Patricia Lockwood's Crowd-Pleasing Poetry 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z “Mlodinow handles this topic astutely. … He writes in a brisk, friendly style that easily draws you in and makes you reflect on both the recounted anecdotes and your own way of handling comparable situations.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Wiggly furniture is also enjoying a brisk business on the west coast. Move Over Squishy Furniture. Make Room for Wiggly Stuff. 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Hopefully, a brisk nudge will set him straight. Can I Call Out My Friend for Lying About Her Dad’s Death? 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Business was brisk, the owners said, and the kind of highly specific ephemera it sells — Chemical Brothers ringer T-shirts, Dean & DeLuca mugs, APC denim shirts from the 1990s — was in demand. For the (Renewed) Love of Vintage Dressing 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z And her performance was brisk and saucy, involving choreographed dance moves – part of her move into poppier territory – and ending in a stage dive that was less punk than good stagecraft. Critic's Notebook: Rihanna, Chris Brown and Drake Triumph at Video Music Awards 2012-09-07T07:25:03Z Here he takes up residence in a theater for a brisk 96 minutes, never moving his players outside of its walls, never needing to. Roman Polanski knows the ropes in 'Venus in Fur' 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z In her brisk, candid tale, Bosworth shows how crippling and destructive those values were. In the 1950s, Patricia Bosworth acted with the best, married the worst, and lost those she loved 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Here and in the other three Pärt scores he uses here, he continually imposes a brisk dance tempo on top of essentially slow music. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-30T20:37:16Z In keeping with contemporary tastes in the Classical repertory, Mr. Langrée led a brisk performance, with tempos that suited a group more notable for its lithe agility than its heft. Mostly Mozart’s Final Notes Include ‘Passion’ 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z I often take this with me on leisurely park walks with my little girl, or on brisker walks running errands, to keep me hydrated and warm against the cold. Three Restorative Recipes to Warm From Within 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z I love a brisk ride through wine country, but I was surprised at how hard it was to enjoy the passing landscape. Médoc, From Grand Cru to Country Cooking 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z In that spirit, we set out on a brisk Wednesday morning for the medieval town of Sant’Angelo in Colle for lunch. Tuscany Without the Crowds 2010-03-05T03:55:00Z Instead they busied themselves with brisk and accomplished improvising, often in an overlapping tandem. Music Review: Jazz With a Humorist Urge and a Whiff of Mystery 2010-10-25T22:19:00Z This misunderstanding leads to a brisk hour or so of people talking at cross purposes, often hilariously, for the better part of the play. London Stages, Full of Cheating Hearts 2013-07-18T12:00:01Z Throughout, too, her writing remains brisk and witty: She alludes to the seasonal tradition of reading ghost stories, “while the children break their new toys around you.” Review | Christmas: Holy day, holiday or nostalgic wish? 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z "Frozen" toys, including a popular collection of dolls, were brisk sellers during the last holiday season. 'Frozen' powers Disney first-quarter earnings 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z For those of us who were dismayed by her brisk distaste for that cosy state-dominated world, it was never enough to dislike her. Margaret Thatcher: we disliked her and we loved it 2013-04-09T05:00:00Z It’s a brisk and polished and somehow very American novel. Review: In ‘The Adventurist,’ an Executive’s Search for Meaning and Small Raptures 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z A montage sequence, where Mia and her friends take turn after turn under the hand’s influence, recalls their YouTube shorts: unhinged, exuberant, brisk. With ‘Talk to Me,’ Directors Leap From Phone Screens to the Big Screen 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z These basics and more are laid out in a brisk opening scene, as is the central question of the episode: Which child will Dad, a high school basketball coach, choose to be his new assistant? Tyler Ritter and Laurie Metcalf in ‘The McCarthys’ on CBS 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z It’s a brisk, deftly staged scene that gets the show off to a vigorous start. Television Review: ‘Copper,’ a BBC America Series Set in Old New York 2012-08-16T21:49:11Z Watching Davis McCallum’s brisk, pitch-perfect production at the Mint Theater Company feels like stumbling across a lost film classic by Howard Hawks: How did this fresh and fizzy thing fall into obscurity? Theater Review: ‘London Wall,’ an Old Romantic Comedy Resurrected 2014-02-25T21:37:33Z Corti maintained brisk speeds and, if not quite coruscating, the orchestra played with insight and energy. Scottish Opera: The Flying Dutchman; Fretwork – review 2013-04-13T23:07:47Z If the waltzing second movement, with its elusive 5/4 meter, was a little cautious, the talked-about march was taken at a brisk clip and played to the hilt. Music Review: Young Talents With a Fondness for Applause 2011-05-23T21:42:39Z The first, “11383,” is a brisk minor blues, with the swirling momentum typical of Coltrane’s live performances and his most affecting records. Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z We took grim, brisk walks through a city turning rapidly gray and brown, aging into the end of the year. When everything’s wrong, only baked pasta feels right 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z David F. Chapman has directed the show at a brisk pace, as if it, like the ghosts, had a deadline. Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 9-15 2011-12-08T23:17:55Z “Drama” is a brisk book, packed with funny stories. Life Onstage With John Lithgow and Hal Holbrook 2011-10-02T16:04:46Z Alternating narrators usher us through brisk chapters providing glimpses into the inner thoughts of each character. Review | ‘Big Little Lies’ author Liane Moriarty is back with another page-turner 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z His films have mostly done brisk business, too, for a man who once joked that the "liberal" tag was a bit rightwing for him. Paul Haggis: 'You have to question your beliefs' 2011-01-06T22:30:02Z In the buildup to the release of “The Dark Tower,” fans of the source material have expressed concern that the movie’s brisk running time would underserve the books’ grand themes. Review | In ‘The Dark Tower,’ Matthew McConaughey is funny — in a bad way 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The play, a brisk 80 minutes, consists primarily of scenes from Laura’s youth, when the seeds of resentment between father and daughter were planted. Theater Review: Rattlestick Stages New ‘Charles Ives Take Me Home’ 2013-06-14T02:00:02Z Meanwhile, to judge from the quality of the films at Toronto 2010, as well as the relatively brisk acquisition wheeling-and-dealing, there will be plenty to keep moviegoers engaged over the coming year. Critic?s Notebook: Spotlight Glows Brightly in Toronto 2010-09-17T22:57:00Z Buy Nothing Day rattles along at a brisk pace, all giddy drums and American teen-movie guitars, but it's Cosentino's sweet, world-weary vocal that steals the show. New music exclusive: The Go! Team ? Buy Nothing Day 2010-12-07T10:32:00Z This, the story's setup, takes next to no time to relate in Jama-Everett's brisk prose. New in science fiction: the dreams and visions of outsiders and misfits 2012-03-28T19:31:05Z It’s inevitable with any broad yet brisk survey, but were there designers, trends or aesthetics that you felt were missing, that would have helped the story the Met is trying to tell? Fashion Returns to the Museum 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z My tempi are brisk, and I get everyone out the door in under three hours, including 2 intermissions! It's 'Messiah' season in Seattle 2010-12-01T23:52:00Z One year later, they opened their coffee shop, Resistencia, near the intersection of 14th and Cloverdale, and business has been brisk. For a Seattle Enclave, Isolation May Be Its Salvation 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z However, despite these diverting scenes, Ressler crams arguably too many facts and themes into the brisk 83 minutes, and glosses over some key questions. In the stunning yet grim "The Last Ice," melting glaciers and development threaten Inuit way of life 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z A bon vivant who enjoyed long lunches and strong martinis, Rosset was a slightly built man with a brisk, peppery voice; and a breathless laugh, often at his own expense. First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset dies 2012-02-22T17:03:09Z The movie’s pace, both solemn and brisk, is a miracle of conveying reams of narrative — a hallmark of the old Hollywood masters, whose storytelling was typically more synoptic and coherent than that of today’s directors. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z But the details never become too dense or overwhelming, thanks largely to Leader’s clear, brisk style. A comprehensive study of a Nobel laureate 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z If anything, the best American rosés today are exactly what one would want: brisk and refreshing, subtle and savory, never cloying or fatiguing. American Rosés Without Clichés 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z You can understand why Mr. Plakhotnyi and Ms. Berlizyeva lost ground in the brisk first dance, where their brightness was forced. ‘America’s Ballroom Challenge,’ a Dance Series on PBS 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z It’s a bright, brisk record, packed with the polished country-pop songs that Mr. Paisley’s devotees have come to expect. Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z Over the brisk four-song set, airy beats give her resonant vocals plenty of breathing room, like a decanted fine wine. 15 of the best Seattle albums of 2021 (so far) 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z But Mr. Burhans short-circuits Mr. Glass’s penchant for meditative repetition, dispatching his wheeling arpeggios and floating melodic cells with a pop song’s economy, brisk pace and emotional effusiveness. Music Review: Alarm Will Sound Oozes With Resolve at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-06-16T21:50:06Z This month, their artworks are on view in concurrent solo exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth in New York, where we met on a brisk fall morning. Two Pioneering Artists Discuss Motherhood and Machismo 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The seventh installment of the unassailable “Fast & Furious” franchise serves as both a brisk action flick and a touching tribute to Paul Walker, in his last role filmed before his death. What’s on TV Thursday: March Madness and ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Exercise doesn’t have to mean playing competitive ice hockey; the odd brisk walk will keep you in shape. Age against the machine: the secret to enjoying a long life 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z After a few botched opening measures, Enrique Mazzola, making his house debut with this run, led a brisk rendition that matched the energy of his high-spirited cast. Review: ‘L’Elisir d’Amore,’ With Vittorio Grigòlo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Moran considers herself a humorist, and she approaches all of these concerns with a brisk, upbeat, profane and often very funny voice. Caitlin Moran and the pitfalls of the essayist-turned-novelist 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Working on “Truman,” he formed the habit of taking brisk early morning walks, just as the president had done. David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z The brisk pace of rugby sevens makes for action-packed matches, full of sprinting, fast scoring and, like all rugby, bruising player collisions worthy of a highlight reel. The pandemic postponed the 2020 Olympics. This Maryland rugby player is hopeful for 2021. 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Liz, already brisk and self-sufficient as a teenager, will succeed; Clive will not. This Is Paradise by Will Eaves - review 2012-02-10T22:05:01Z At an efficiently brisk seven episodes, it’s nobody’s idea of a dull time. Review | In Ryan Murphy’s ‘Hollywood,’ the old studio system gets a rousingly revisionist wake-up call 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z If you want to add intensity, he suggests inserting intermittent 30-second bursts of running, adopting a brisk pace on hills, or walking with a weighted vest or a backpack. Your gym might be closed, but coronavirus doesn’t have to keep you from your workout 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z He pushes his brisk, 1960s-tinged songs toward a 21st-century disorientation that melds the psychedelic and the digital: vocals play hide and seek behind effects, and drum sounds often arrive reversed, whooshing before they wink out. Playlist : New Music by Lianne La Havas, Jovanotti, Blonds and Opossom 2012-08-03T16:00:00Z Fans from across Europe gathered outside the stadium, where vendors did a brisk trade in King of Pop T-shirts and fedora hats like those once worn by Jackson. Fans gather for Michael Jackson tribute concert 2011-10-08T17:06:08Z At the brisk ring of a bell, she started to stir, arching her sinewy back, the beginning of a delicate descent down to Earth from her comfortable perch. Review: In ‘Herstory of the Universe,’ Ancient Myths Are Brought to Life 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z The whole thing's over in a brisk 80 minutes, and without ever getting to the big dinner. Dinner for Schmucks: Carell Goes Crazy 2010-07-29T21:35:00Z Many beer festivals — like Saturday's first-ever Winter Brew in Lincoln Square — are selling out in record time, leading to brisk secondhand online markets. Competition fierce when it comes to craft beer 2012-01-28T05:39:00Z Yet their main performing manners were calm, matter-of-fact and often brisk. Dancers Strip to Essentials in ‘Basketball’ and ‘TranSenses’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Like that film, “Lyle” has a brisk, whimsical momentum that is utterly infectious in the early going. ‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile’ Review: Bopping to the Crocodile Rock 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z That family disaster is not the only monumental life crisis in this brisk, musically supple 70-minute performance. Singer-guitarist Benjamin Scheuer purrs his life and times in ‘The Lion’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Smartly condensed into a brisk two hours, the outdoor show is touring to local parks for the next several weeks. Review: Much to like about outdoor 'Much Ado' 2010-07-16T19:53:00Z A brisk January wind whipped them into motion, creating the illusion of human bustle and activity. Perspective | As Trump slips out of town, Biden repurposes old symbols for new life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z He tailored his set list Sunday to Riot Fest’s origins, concentrating on his early material, which had a brisk, bruising impact. Concert review: Riot Fest at Humboldt Park 2012-09-17T05:46:00Z Grocers have found that they can still do a brisk business with fewer choices. 7 Ways the Pandemic Has Changed How We Shop for Food 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Enforcing lean textures, brisk tempos and restrained vibrato, the British maestro led a meticulously shaped performance whose joyous energy was the evening’s highlight. In BSO debuts, young pianist Jan Lisiecki stumbles as conductor Paul Goodwin shines 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z It was a brisk show, but with many eyes closed in reverie at the familiar melodies and lyrics, it was – as ever – evident how nimble the Stones’ songwriting was. ArtsBeat: Music Review - Rolling Stones 'Hot Rocks' Tribute at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-14T09:34:51Z Mr. Rilling favored brisk tempos on Tuesday and the choir — distinguished by its precise diction, crisp articulation and control — sounded cleanly fluid even in the fastest passages. | New York Philharmonic: A Period-Style Taste of a Holiday-Season Staple 2009-12-17T06:08:00Z Billy, vigorously male but innocent enough to require a caregiver, longs to work in business, where all the men seem “fantastically brisk.” Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z "Smart cobs" is a wonderful, brisk trot of a phrase. Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z The Coathangers were intense from the get-go, plowing through songs new and old at a brisk clip, toeing the line between great-sloppy and regular old sloppy. Music Review: On a Hot Night, Intense Frenzied Punk 2011-06-29T21:56:11Z The pun in the brisk, low-concept “Hat Trick,” in which the flamboyantly silly comic wears a backward cap while performing in three different rooms of the Comedy Store in Hollywood, is its only effortful part. 5 Smart Comedy Specials From Veteran Standups 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Visiting a year after our return to Austin, I’ve almost forgotten the city’s brisk pace. The Out of Towner: Where Lone Stars Don?t Feel So Alone 2011-06-23T22:25:49Z And, for his closer, a traditionally brisk “Cherokee,” he fired off eighth-note phrases with razor clarity, backed only by bass and drums. Music Review: Wynton Marsalis Septet Members, Together Again 2013-12-27T21:14:06Z The other way is what I like to think of as a more British stance, where everyone is brisk and bustles and looks away and makes brittle jokes that shatter immediately into awkward silence. The Secret Actress on sex scenes: my co-star warned ‘forgive me if I harden' 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z When the soldiers cross paths, they snap into ranked formation and gradually their brisk footsteps crescendo into a single massed beat. ‘Drum Listens to Heart’: Images, Words and Sculptures, Bound by a Beat 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z A fixture of New York’s piano rooms of yore, Kirk Lightsey turned his official stateside return into a brisk renewal of purpose. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Hamilton shows his political nous, as he makes a brisk but somewhat undermining recommendation of a Roman sculptor planning an American monument: “Hamilton” and the Books That Hamilton Held 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Across town from the shuttered Crumbs location, local cupcake shops Georgetown Cupcake and Baked and Wired are doing brisk business. The Crumbs cupcake empire has been iced, but the cupcake rolls on. But the brisk story is too often stalled by crass bits. Everything you think you know about ghosts is wrong 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Nussbaum smiled a bit more than usual just then, and gave Ms. Combs a hug before heading out into the brisk October night to hail a taxi for home. Exit, Stage Left, Grasping Cane; Enter, Sprinting 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Judging from the brisk business, the stock is as seductive as Alexander Hamilton courting the Schuyler Sisters. The hottest merch of 'Hamilton,' from the 'Scrappy' baby onesie to the 'My Shot' glass 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The brisk, intelligent efficiency that Ms. Errico exudes in the early scenes should remain the dominant note, rather than the benevolent gentility she emphasizes in the last act. Theater Review | 'Candida': Two Men Who Adore Her, One Woman in the Middle 2010-03-08T06:35:00Z It seemed for a while that the big screen was beyond the reach and insurability of a director – however well known for his brisk and economical approach to shooting – who was in his 80s. Sidney Lumet obituary 2011-04-10T16:59:14Z But a younger audience, reading to discover what happens next, will likely appreciate the brisk pacing and excellent appendices. The Children of 9/11 Come of Age 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s a brisk, efficient piece of storytelling with a skillfully modulated sense of vertigo as Margot begins to realize she knows next to nothing about the man she is dating. ‘Cat Person’ and Other Tales of Discomfort in a Debut Collection 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z It's especially poignant given the brisk resuscitation of the insurgency in Iraq over the past week. 'Made in L.A.' best in show: 5 must-see pieces at the Hammer biennial 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Advance sales have been brisk, a press representative told me, the production’s modest $2.8 million capitalization nearly recouped. Men Who Aren’t Afraid of Tears 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Actually, Beethoven’s influence is less striking here than Mendelssohn’s, particularly in the brisk, cheerful finale. Music Review: Capturing Shifts Between Ecstasy and Anguish 2011-01-18T23:32:38Z "Don Quixote, or Fantasies of a Madman" is one of Boris Eifman's most enjoyable works, brisk storytelling and lively dance that gingerly sends up classical ballet while providing a reasonably fine modern equivalent. New twists and turns enliven 'Don Quixote' 2011-04-22T15:34:23Z Like many of the cars that race through it, “Faster” adheres to a formula and keeps a brisk pace. The Jewish Race-Car Driver Who Outpaced the Nazis 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Everyone is good-looking and brisk and witty, here in the borrowed London townhouse where the 60-year-old director is shooting a short sequel to his movie Love Actually. Behind the scenes of Comic Relief’s Love Actually: Andrew Lincoln’s creepy cards return 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z “Ghosting the News” is a brisk and pointed tribute to painstaking, ordinary and valuable work. Yes, Fake News Is a Problem. But There’s a Real News Problem, Too. 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z “I’m moving, brisk movement … this is faster … wind is blowing and I’m talking louder … I don’t remember, no, I don’t remember.” Succession recap: season two, episode seven – deliciously twisted as ever 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The cast members, under the brisk direction of Trip Cullman, make the most of their fairly circumscribed roles. Theater Review: ?Assistance,? by Leslye Headland, Revolves Around Absent Boss 2012-02-29T00:09:35Z For six months, half the sample increased their programme until they were doing 150 minutes of brisk aerobic exercise a week. Meet the man living with Alzheimer’s who climbs the same mountain every day 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z It’s a familiar recipe, perhaps, but one that is extremely well realized here, thanks in part to terrific performances and brisk, ebullient pacing. ‘In Love and Warcraft’: Madhuri Shekar plays with games of romance and conflict 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z A brisk and welcome run through the Beach Boys' "Little Honda" is soon followed by an exercise in drone and dissonance, with Kaplan hunched over his foot pedals, conjuring shrieks and howls. Pitchfork Festival Day 3: Tree, Foxygen, Killer Mike kick things off 2013-07-22T00:56:00Z All I know is that on a brisk spring evening in 1989, my pal Carolyn and I went to the movies. Director Michael Lehmann on why Ivanka and Kellyanne are today's "good Heathers" 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z A brisk walk up Market Street to Gough Street spurred our appetites again, which was a good thing, because the pastries on offer at the 20th Century Cafe were stellar. O, San Francisco, land of flour and honey Written in three acts and here performed in a reasonably brisk two, “Harvey” definitely has some saggy patches. Theater Review: ‘Harvey,’ With Jim Parsons, at Studio 54 2012-06-15T02:17:16Z “Serenade” itself, that fascinatingly brisk kaleidoscope of heart-stopping moments, seemed younger, newer than ever. School of American Ballet’s New Graduates Onstage 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Each highlights natural beauty and plenty of opportunities to get outside for some fresh — and potentially brisk — air. The best winter road trips for RVs, from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to the Florida Keys 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The majority were in the mythical “Southland” celebrated in “The Birth of the Blues,” a song he and his musicians took at a brisk pace and pointedly resisted turning into an anthem. Music Review: Johnny Rodgers Performs at the Algonquin?s Oak Room 2010-05-12T20:47:00Z They get coffee, lift weights, take brisk walks at the same designated spots every day. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z There comes, however, even through the brisk tone, an autumnal note of self-pity. Dear Lumpy: Letters to a Disobedient Daughter by Roger Mortimer and Louise Mortimer – review 2013-06-05T11:00:04Z News reports tell us that the terrorist group referred to as the Islamic State is not only destroying architectural monuments in Syria and Iraq, but is also doing brisk business selling looted antiquities abroad. ‘Assyria to Iberia,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z When Alethea takes over the narrative, she describes the rise and fall of her failed marriage in brisk, evocative prose, slicing through sentiment and getting down to practicalities. Interpreting the Interpreter: Who Was Lafcadio Hearn? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z He toyed with buzzing textures and insistent dissonances in a brisk version of “Aquarela do Brasil,” and in his “P’ro Flavio,” a whirlwind of dissonance and pointillistic picking coalesced into yet another upbeat melody. Music Review: Badi Assad Is a Headliner at New York Guitar Festival 2014-01-21T22:43:03Z A brisk breeze and a setting sun allowed for a social habitat as guests experienced more interactions with the open bars than with the animals on display. Lance Bass and his 'big voice' join Betty White at L.A. Zoo's Beastly Ball 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Celdran asks rhetorically, prompting his tour participants to the next destination with a brisk exit and his trademark bellow of “Walk this way!” Special Report: Travel Asia: In Manila, ‘Livin’ La Vida Imelda!’ 2012-10-12T23:07:41Z Over a brisk, unsettled accompaniment from Pablo Heras-Casado and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, his first few notes sounded, well, ordinary — pretty, sweet and bland. Review: Christian Tetzlaff Sharpens Mendelssohn’s Edge 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z In this new novel, Atwood is far more focused on creating a brisk thriller than she is on exploring the perversity of systemic repression. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s all brisk and unaccountably entertaining until the film suddenly achieves an almost religious intensity. Video: Hard Work of Comedy and Straight-Shooting 2011-04-16T02:23:01Z At one point in the diaries, in a Madison Avenue eatery he runs into a fan who sums up the feelings of so many readers and theatergoers with a brisk directive. Alan Bennett’s Latest Nonfiction 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The “vintage” shop on its website is doing a brisk business. The dish: Why vintage tableware is making a comeback in restaurants and homes 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Selina Cadell brings the ambiguity that made her shine in Doc Martin to the brisk deaconess sister, who belongs to a church in which "gaiter has yielded to garter". People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z I could more easily picture her doing a brisk backstroke to the river’s edge rather than allowing the waters to claim her, as poor mad Ophelia does. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z Somewhere along the way, I became attached to a kind of brisk efficiency at the expense of ease and occasional frivolity. Why I love my unitaskers (with apologies to Alton Brown) 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Their fist bump was not followed by a stationary pose for the cameras; the pair transitioned immediately into a brisk walk indoors. Biden greets MBS, and we once again obsess about a fist bump 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z But under Mr. Yu’s baton, they summoned surprising extremes, leavened occasionally with the brisk lightness of a Tchaikovsky ballet. Review: Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man Play With Cinematic Sweep 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z With brisk editing and bright colors, the film unfolds as a tale of whimsy. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z It is truly a wonderful option for a brisk night. 24 ways to go savory with apples (because fall's favorite fruit belongs in more than pie) 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z The house lights remain on throughout the comparatively brisk running time of 2 hours 40 minutes: a nod to the open-air atmosphere of the Globe theater, we are told as the play begins. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z By the end of the piece — a brisk, brash 15 minutes — the group held two banners. Review: DanceNoise, Lamenting AIDS and Armed With Fresh Blood 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z After a brisk, fat-free half-hour, she's joined on stage by the vast figure of soul shouter Lloyd Wade for Pack Up. Eliza Doolittle | Pop review 2010-03-24T22:15:00Z Informative but not overwhelming, it blends biography and appreciative analysis in 90 brisk, packed minutes. Review: ‘Garry Winogrand’ Pictures an Artist and His World 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z She also quickens your pulse, and not just through the brisk editing, notably during the short period when she’s separated from her child. ‘In the Same Breath’ Review: Wuhan 2019, or When Normalcy Ended 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Yesterday there were only about a dozen of them and the session lasted only a brisk 20 minutes. Learning 'Lear': Time to Leave the Nest 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z There are traces of Hemingway here, a hint of Fitzgerald, but the voice is unmistakably his own, brisk with the confidence of a young man who already knows his way around in the world. The Eavesdropper’s Secret: On John O’Hara 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z He took the final fugue at a brisk pace, reined in just enough to elucidate the stunningly intricate streams of counterpoint. Review: Murray Perahia Takes a Majestic Approach to Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Kahn met me outside of her bakery on a brisk fall afternoon. This bread is beloved in Paris — and a relic of Jewish history 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Foote is a tall, rangy woman with a brisk manner and a penetrating glance. Stage Fright: Daisy Foote on Writing Since the Death of Her Father, Horton 2012-09-27T22:29:22Z “I was afraid New York was going to become boring,” he confessed on a brisk afternoon earlier this month. John Wilson Reveals the Absurd Poetry of New York 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Despite the brisk temperature, the room held distinctly warm memories for the 20-year-old singer. Taylor Swift ready to "Speak Now" with third album 2010-10-15T22:29:00Z If you are feeling tired, sore or sluggish, you must keep up with the brisk, mechanical pace of the line. Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn’t have an owner — just don’t call it “c... 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z The wall text and a brisk video reveal that the facades were built from the salvage — and nothing else — of a red barn in Schoharie, N.Y. Atop the Met, a Haunting House 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The album he started in September is bursting with brisk tempos and Adkins' signature acerbic wit. Trace Adkins "Back in Town" with renewed energy 2010-07-17T02:02:00Z Every song in Wednesday’s set was a Hersch original, with the exception of “Let’s Cool One,” a Thelonious Monk tune he had tweaked with a brisk new arrangement. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio and Joe Lovano Jam at Village Vanguard 2013-07-26T19:55:54Z One curious aspect of the indie-film aesthetic is that, even as it denounces such Hollywood conventions as a brisk pace and snappy, intelligible dialogue, it clings to hoary plot clichés, behavioral explosions and noble resolutions. Out of the Furnace…and Into the Indie-Film Clichés 2013-12-07T00:29:27Z He is the emcee of the show and keeps it moving at a brisk pace. 'Scot Nery's Boobie Trap' in Echo Park puts fringe entertainment on center stage 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The air was brisk and breezy, and the harbor was redolent of sewage and decaying fish. T Magazine: France Nouveau 2011-11-17T17:04:21Z He took the stage with a brisk monologue including one last joke at the disappointment he could never stop picking at: “It’s beginning to look like I’m not going to get the Tonight Show!” David Letterman Leaves Us, Laughing 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z It’s a brisk and straightforward history play with a plot that doesn’t do the twist. Review: Does Power Corrupt in ‘Henry V’? Absolutely 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Of an Englishman, he writes, “The demeanour — he cannot say quite why — unmistakably British, perhaps because the hand gestures, while brisk and economic, are in some way inhibited.” John le Carré’s ‘A Delicate Truth’: a dark mix of motive and opportunity 2013-05-15T22:58:58Z If Gardiner's brisk clarity, favouring symbolist hues over impressionist gauzes, sometimes stripped the score of an element of its mystery, the delicacy of the ORR's playing, in the final act especially, was something to savour. Prom 3: Pelléas et Mélisande – review 2012-07-16T11:08:16Z Banter between Murray and bassist Chris Cain is as brisk as usual, too. We Are Scientists – review 2012-07-26T15:42:48Z Indian video shops in 1980s Britain did a brisk trade in VHS tapes featuring the songs from these two films. Top 10 Indian cinema soundtracks 2013-07-25T16:02:25Z This book, by a writer and editor at The Guardian, is a brisk and friendly introduction to linguistics, and a synthesis of the field’s recent discoveries. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The brisk clip and dashes of dark humor ward off actual despair, but the length poses challenges for some of the heavy lifting of character growth. Review: ‘Stinking Heaven,’ a Portrait of Addicts in Turmoil 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The numerous venues vary as often as the cars do, which keeps the action brisk. Game On: 'Origins' a visual delight; 'The Run' worth a spin 2012-01-05T19:25:03Z In truth, the music wasn't quite as "cool" as its marketing-savvy titled suggested: Many of the "Birth of the Cool" tracks generated considerable heat, through brisk tempos and fervent expression. Miles Davis' 'Birth of the Cool' heats up again 2011-03-07T15:00:00Z Taking advantage of newly relaxed laws, many bars are doing a brisk trade in to-go cocktails in New York, Los Angeles, Denver and elsewhere. Canned Cocktails in Quarantine Make Mixing a One-Step Process 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Walls refuses easy sentimentality, and the story is brisk and surprising, perfectly paced. These Are Not Your G-Rated Fairy Tales 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Charlie’s annual, secret gift of shoes for India is shown in a short, brisk montage hurtling back in time, from a teenager’s saddle shoes to an infant’s booties. Stoker: Gloom with a View 2013-03-01T04:30:31Z The storefronts on Broadway Market also do a brisk business, and one of them, Fin and Flounder, is known for getting sustainable and especially fresh seafood from Cornwall dayboats. Next Stop: An Oasis Off London?s Beaten Path 2010-09-01T19:01:00Z Over the weekend, Tito’s Handmade Vodka of Austin, Texas, did a brisk business selling concoctions like a $16 Kung Fu Mule with lotus root, said Zack Flores, director of the firm’s philanthropic programs. San Francisco’s Outside Lands Moves Beyond the Music 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z For a brisk winter stroll I selected the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which this year is celebrating the centennial of its founding in 1910. 2010-01-08T04:51:00Z Tucked on the side are golden coins of fried green plantains with a brisk snap. Cooking, Inspired by Grandma, at My Cuban Spot in Brooklyn 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z As for “Pictures at an Exhibition,” they seemed newly framed and illuminated, brisk and taut. Review | NSO season opener shows that Noseda isn’t focused on blockbusters, but basics 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Making his Philharmonic debut, the Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena led the program — one of this season’s hoariest immersions in the standardest of standard repertory, it must be said — with brisk efficiency and lightness of texture. Trifonov and the Philharmonic, Together Again at Avery Fisher 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Here, the brisk, gleaming pianism was more of the story. Schubert’s final sonatas given impressive rendering by Israeli pianist 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Carbone and his two partners, whose restaurant company is called the Major Food Group, want the tone of the room to be masculine, meat-embracing and signified by the brisk confidence of the Kennedy years. A Little Old, a Little New for the Four Seasons Space 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Soon we were fording a brisk river, clambering up and down hills of mud not that far from the color of Ms. Angulo’s seafood. Once Colombia’s ‘Deadliest City,’ Buenaventura Is Coming Back 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Isa and Gala sell used clothes from a stall at a weekend market, cultivating “a shopping experience” if not a brisk trade. Moving to New York With Little Cash but Charm to Spare 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z In person, Paquin is brisk, earnest and articulate, and careful with her words. Anna Paquin: ‘I’ve had some horrific experiences’ 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z But it’s brisk and compelling to watch, because it’s so raw and stripped-down. Top Chef Vs. Chopped: Who Rules the Food TV Kitchen? 2012-02-22T16:06:29Z Another time we were in rather brisk weather sailing into the Mediterranean. The Cruise Issue: Q&A: 25 Years on the Sea and Counting 2011-02-11T19:55:00Z The brisk pace of ticket sales among fans is all the explanation you need to understand why theaters and studios would bother selling tickets six months in advance. Tickets to New Batman Movie Go On Sale Six Months in Advance?And Sell Out 2012-01-17T19:07:23Z Tempos in the outer movements and the Scherzo were brisk, and Mr. Gilbert’s account of the Funeral March was plangent, if never quite sublime. Music Review: Renderings Energetic and Brash 2011-05-06T05:00:07Z He delivers a glorious, sly performance in a gloriously sly movie that masks its idiosyncrasy in brisk and breezy storytelling. Review: “The Old Man and the Gun” Is a Peak in Robert Redford’s Career 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z But her new book is intended less as design history, and more a succinct survey in 13 brisk chapters of where design is now. Hello World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn – review 2013-05-10T13:00:03Z In a review for The New York Times, Mike Hale called the documentary “brisk and concise.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Pose’ and ‘Don’t’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Here, for example, is the beginning of a story called “The Piano Tuner’s Wives,” which lays everything out — two marriages and an entire social world — in just a couple of brisk sentences: William Trevor, Spare Chronicler of Diminished Lives 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The surrounding movements were brisk and hard-driven, and full of unusual balances. Music Review: The Modern Beethoven Ends at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-16T21:15:58Z Enjoying a brisk autumn day walking around Manhattan listening to Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. Mahler’s Having a Moment. He’s Got Lydia Tár to Thank for It. 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The company reopened this summer for 2022 bookings, and business has been brisk. Travel forecast 2022: Experts weigh in on pandemic-ready getaways and strategies 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The novella takes up more than a third of this brisk, hard-boiled book, which also includes seven short stories. George Pelecanos Explores New Terrain in ‘The Martini Shot’ 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Despite such uncertainty, director Kristina Sutherland keeps the action brisk and crisp, and knows how to nudge the audience's imagination. Review: Annex cyberpunk dramedy a little rough around the edges 2010-05-13T19:01:00Z Giddins guides us past these minefields in brisk, lucid prose, as smoothly controlled as a Crosby performance. How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Its immediacy comes in part from the brisk naturalism of the performances and the nimbleness and fluidity of the editing. Review: ‘BPM (Beats Per Minute)’ Captures the Fierce AIDS Fight 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace quickly issued a brisk statement that the transition was still "at an early stage". Good for you, Meghan and Harry! Three cheers for the royal escape plan 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z I tried to warm my tone from mean to brisk. Women’s Work 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z The brisk winter temperatures made me more appreciative of bakeries selling warm-from-the-oven breads. Frugal Traveler: Budget-Friendly and (Almost) Dracula-Free Transylvania 2014-01-27T20:22:08Z Mr. Batiste has a leg up in that regard: He fell into brisk comic rhythm with Mr. Colbert last summer, during an interview on “The Colbert Report.” Jon Batiste Will Lead ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Band in a Style He Sees Fit 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z The feet weren’t elegant, but the footwork was brisk. Dance Review | National Ballet of Cuba: ?Swan Lake? From the National Ballet of Cuba 2010-04-04T22:19:00Z While Mr. Boreyko led the orchestra in brisk, burnished readings — the brasses, not always the Philharmonic’s rock, were particularly strong — the final Allegro of the Dvorak could have been fierier. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and Philharmonic Play Shostakovich 2012-11-25T23:04:20Z Two and a Half Men is also broad, and its jokes can miss as often as they hit, but it always feels brisk. Charlie Sheen's comeback sitcom Anger Management makes tepid debut 2012-06-29T14:39:03Z Sumac’s early repertoire reflected this musical current, including, for example, huaynos, brisk Andean highland ballads featuring strings and flute. On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The Sanzay was slightly different from the others, richer and fruitier yet delightfully fresh, brisk and lively. The Beauty of Saumur Champigny, Not Always Appreciated 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Cumming’s delivery of the major soliloquies is forthright and lucid but oddly weightless: the character’s descent into depravity has been sketched in brisk, light strokes that dissipate quickly, as if drawn in invisible ink. Theater Review: ‘Macbeth,’ With Alan Cumming at the Barrymore Theater 2013-04-22T02:00:49Z Crowe provides a brisk account of the incredible sweep of Russell's influence in a montage of hit songs from the '60s and '70s on which he played as a session musician. Crowe pays homage to Elton John, Leon Russell 2011-04-24T22:07:44Z The ensuing interrogations are brisk, Cromwell’s replies sarcastically superb. Crashing Henry VIII’s Court One Last Time With Hilary Mantel 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z His brisk trot through the world of maps includes dozens of rich topics that individually would make compelling books. ‘On the Map’: The wonderful world of maps, from A to Z 2012-12-27T19:20:05Z Tucker’s exhilarating tempos — brisk and dance-like — were apt and always consistent with contemporary fashion in baroque performance. Choral Arts Society performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor at Kennedy Center Day was the patron saint of that persuasion: industrious, uplifting, dependable, and brisk. The Matchless Presence of Doris Day 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z He led a brisk, vigorous performance, and the orchestra sounded fine, its odd seating notwithstanding. Music Review: A Magician Pulling Strings to Prove a Point: Love Stinks 2011-08-16T22:00:31Z "The loving bond between parent and child comes through loud and clear in this brisk, humorous look at a busy day that features cartoon-style illustrations and a humorous repeated refrain." Top 10 books for babies 2012-05-26T03:53:36Z All of the actors are good; Mr. Raymond-James is scary good; and the story rips along at a brisk pace. Review: ‘Game of Silence,’ a Thriller, Grows Out of a Troubled Past 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The question arises after a brisk and happy trot through Henry Alford’s new book, “Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?” Books of The Times: ?Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?? ? By Henry Alford ? Review 2012-01-03T22:29:05Z He has led more than two thousand and five hundred performances of more than eighty-five different operas; his brisk, effusive technique has been adequate to them all, and superior in many cases. James Levine’s Accomplishment at the Met 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z “Carlyle,” directed at a brisk clip by Benjamin Kamine and powered by the dynamic Mr. Jones, is loosely put together and sometimes devolves into random speechifying. Beyond the Trump Show? Two Political Plays in Chicago Give It a Try 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z On a brisk Sunday afternoon in October, about 15 volunteers gathered in Baltimore to canvass for the Nov. 6 election. The Maryland Green Party wants to win. So it has 24 candidates on the ballot. 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Roberts, a leading Ailey dancer who was inspired by his relationship with his brother, incorporates brisk, angular movement with bouncy jumps that repeat and repeat until the dancers unite in the end. Review: From Ailey II, Youthful Promise Caught in a Juvenile Setting 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Originating in 1920s Harlem, and named in honor of the aviator Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 trans-Atlantic flight, the dance features brisk swing outs and lightning footwork. How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z After this brisk preamble, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” settles into a playful stretch. Looking Apocalypse in the Eye 2011-08-04T14:59:55Z He had in mind a brisk, entertaining and urgent look at a single episode early in Marshall’s career. It’s Thurgood Marshall to the Rescue in a New Thriller 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z “Volume 1” halts in its tracks after a brisk 117 minutes, making it difficult to evaluate. Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’: sex, fly-fishing and more ... 2014-03-20T21:53:51Z Perhaps they went to the movies instead: Box-office analysts noted that ticket sales on Sunday, normally a slow day at theaters, were unusually brisk. Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z In a voice at turns erudite, acid, and tender, it somehow manages to provide a brisk overview of both the long history and the vast expanse of the trail. Why the Most Popular Hiking Memoirs Don’t Go the Distance 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z “We’ve been doing a brisk business because people are drinking their faces off.” Canned Cocktails in Quarantine Make Mixing a One-Step Process 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z It’s a nice touch to say that the bookstore, with its coffee and greeting cards, does “a brisk business in banal.” Her Husband Is Kidnapped. Then Things Start to Go Downhill. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z The expansive scale and brisk but unhurried editing keep “For Greater Glory” from stumbling over itself and becoming a bloated, grandiose exhibition of righteous saber rattling. Movie Review: ‘For Greater Glory’ Traces Mexico’s Cristero War 2012-05-31T22:13:04Z But even though the pilgrim trade to the Holy Land remained brisk, the last regular galley fleet sailed to Alexandria in 1564. Exhibition Review: Venice's Love Affair With Egypt 2011-11-08T13:30:07Z Directed with a feathery touch by Derek Goldman at Theater J, each of the brisk 90-minute show’s four actors is funny and surprisingly touching, whether rapping as they wrap tefillin or brooding as friendships shift. Review | The new comedy ‘Trayf’ at Theater J is Zalmy and Shmuel’s excellent adventure 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The brisk, nine-episode first season ends on a cliffhanger, which could indicate optimism for completing Julie and Sunset Curve's story sometime in the future. How the iconic "Ferris Bueller's" parade and "Dirty Dancing" number inspired Netflix's new musical 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z More recently, one brisk overview has been published in a series about British prime ministers, while another short life examines Lloyd George in a specifically Welsh context. The Great Outsider: David Lloyd George by Roy Hattersley 2010-10-02T13:34:00Z Echoes of Bartok abound in Ligeti’s Bagatelles, like in the bristling rhythms of the fourth movement and the brisk dissonances of the Finale. Music Review: The Folkways That Led to Dvorak and Bartok 2010-10-20T21:18:00Z Her tempos over all, especially in the finale, were brisk to the point of breathlessness. Music Review: Philharmonic, With Jaap van Zweden Conducting Yuja Wang 2012-04-13T20:58:17Z "Thrones" introduces most of the feudal families in its opening episodes and sketches their key members in brisk strokes. "Game of Thrones": HBO's dense, demanding epic 2011-04-14T14:30:00Z On a brisk November day, in a wing of the Newark Museum of Art mocked up as the first New York museum dedicated to L.G.B.T.Q. history, Billy Eichner stood in front of a glass vitrine. Crafting a Rom-Com That’s True to 21st-Century Gay Life 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Speaking in front of audiences and also directly into the camera, she narrates a brisk, informative chronicle of a six-decade career of remarkable creativity. ‘Varda by Agnès’ Review: A Final Visit With an Irreplaceable Filmmaker 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z A boom-bap hip-hop beat sets a brisk pace but there’s an undertow — indifferent piano notes, sustained vocal ahs — that leaves him isolated and suspended, trapped in the nightmare. The Playlist: Kim Gordon Vents and the White Stripes Unleash an Outtake 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It was a brisk fall night, and it was freezing. Remembering R.E.M. 2011-09-22T00:30:00Z As such, “The Waldheim Waltz” sometimes dances between a brisk, present-tense recounting of political history and a more wandering, personal reflection on the filmmaker’s history. Review: In ‘The Waldheim Waltz,’ a Nation Reckons With Its Nazi Past 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “It was a pretty brisk fallout,” she said dryly. Possessed: The Coveter?s Dilemma 2011-07-22T23:27:46Z It’s smartly cast, ambitious and relatively brisk at two and a half hours. ‘The Flash’ Review: Electric Company 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z And while personalised services are familiar enough these days, the conventions of hearse, traditional coffin and brisk service linger. ‘It was an incredibly enriching day’: the families taking control of death 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Vera Wang’s dusky plaids, cashmere argyle sweaters and tartan pants brought a brisk blast of the outdoors to the designer’s dark interior world. Fashion Review: Marchesa Goes to the Scottish Highlands 2014-02-16T12:38:54Z But sales of reproduction clothing are brisk in the United States as well as England, France, Italy and Sweden. This Old Thing? Actually, It?s New 2011-02-02T21:41:12Z However nutty its geopolitics, “Hunter Killer” does its job as popcorn thriller with brisk efficiency. Review: ‘Hunter Killer’ Explores the Depths of Geopolitics 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The second episode is already brisker and more subtly intriguing in places than the first — exciting, even. WGN’s ‘Manhattan’: Hard to build but easy to bomb Conductor Toby Purser highlights the score's entrancing subtleties while keeping the pacing brisk. Fortunio – review 2013-07-11T17:43:00Z The shift in Swanberg’s work is as drastic as the shift in Rossellini’s—and yet, there’s an essential and decisive continuity between the earlier, more overtly raw work and the brisk dramas that followed. Joe Swanberg’s Decade of Revolution 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z She describes music in a very professional, brisk, germane way, never using more than two adjectives, which gives those sections the atmosphere of studio notes rather than prose. Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn – review 2013-01-24T07:00:03Z But, Scott wrote, the movie “conducts its business with brisk, breezy irreverence. It’s a didactic comedy, an earnest lesson in political economy dressed up as a farce.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Laundromat’ and ‘Modern Love’ 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The brisk wordplay, the stoner cadence, the stylish production, the tightknit crew: none of it puts Mr. Sweatshirt at ease, and for now that’s just fine. Craig Taborn, Wayne Shorter and Bill Callahan Achieve 2013-12-13T18:35:06Z There was a brisk trade in 'Stuff the Jubilee' badges but that was all. Why pop stars won't be attacking the monarchy this jubilee 2012-06-01T12:01:08Z And the ensemble was a bit sluggish and uneven in the Lully, as if the players were only belatedly remembering Mr. Christie’s fondness for brisk tempos. Music Review: Very Old Instruments Embraced by the Young 2010-12-06T23:25:00Z It’s as if the documentary, the personal, and the historical fused in a graceful yet majestic vessel that pared away the literary and the theatrical to become a new kind of slender, brisk instant classicism. Postscript: Manoel de Oliveira 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z His brisk knot of lines suggests not just the glint of Velux windows and the glum intransigence of those waiting bins, but the low, sullen lighting of our recent so-called "summers". Signs of the times 2010-04-16T23:05:00Z His prose is brisk and well-paced, with many surprising insights along the way. Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z That means speed, first of all: breakneck lines cleanly articulated over brisk rhythm chords, with the two men switching intuitively between lead and rhythm roles. Music Review: Chris Thile & Michael Daves at the Allen Room - Review 2012-01-14T00:30:25Z Mixing contemporary dance and traditional Tswana movement, the dancers shower the stage with brisk, complex footwork and forceful arms. Review: A Reimagined ‘Giselle,’ With South African Roots 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z You see how three of them escape, which is extraordinary — and so brisk that it’s baffling; you have to guess how the other two elude their traps. Dance Review: Pilobolus Puts 4 Decades of Dance on Display 2013-07-10T21:43:59Z “Secrets,” the brisk album opener, catalogs a litany of neuroses and flaws in a manner both direct and tongue in cheek: “I’m overweight, I’m always late, I’ve got too many things to say.” Albums by Mary Lambert, Nico & Vinz and Angaleena Presley 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z We had come to Cliveden, an estate run by the National Trust, a British conservation charity, for exactly this: an old-fashioned “Downton Abbey”-type of vacation, complete with grandiose architecture and brisk parkland walks. Cultured Traveler : Echoes of ‘Downton Abbey’ on Vacation in England 2014-04-15T20:58:55Z At one point the cast, or most of it, anyway, runs at a brisk jog around the wooden platform that constitutes most of the set. Review: In ‘Steel Hammer,’ a Man and a Train in a Race and a Legend 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The young terrorists are brisk and businesslike until the plastic explosives detonate. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Yet the darkness of the story lines never slows the brisk pacing or dulls the cheering warmth of the photography. ‘Call the Midwife’ Deserves More Respect for Its Depth and Daring 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z It’s a tense and frightening thriller that blends the brisk globe-trotting of the “Bourne” movies with the spooky, atmospheric effects of a Japanese horror film. ‘Citizenfour,’ a Documentary About Edward J. Snowden 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s brisk and refreshing, and is a great match for fresh fish and shellfish, or simply as an aperitif. 20 Wines Under $20: Postcards From Around the World 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z For an idea of its power, consider the 1994 temblor that shook Northridge, killing 57, lasted a brisk 30 seconds at most. How a 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964 changed our understanding is explained in 'The Great Quake' 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The next day brought leaden skies, a cold drizzle and a brisk wind from the north: unpleasant for the traveler, perhaps, but perfect for harvesting hamsi. Journeys: Chasing Anchovies on Turkey’s Black Sea Coast 2012-12-14T15:56:50Z Very little screen time is devoted to that judicial battle, but its brisk decisiveness makes for an agonized contrast with the state of things today. The Crucial Lessons of Democracy in “Selma” 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z At the end of a brisk ninety minutes, Metcalf’s Hillary returns to the starry sky, the infinite universe in all its possibilities. The Broadway Life of Hillary Clinton 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Evidently business was brisk: there was no answer. Falstaff; Tallis Scholars ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:20Z A brisk shuffle beat drives “Cry Mercy, Judge” while little corkscrewing guitar licks turn up all over the place. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Onward he continued in a brisk stride that, he said, helps him think through his songwriting, past a lawn bowling court. Pop: Christopher Owens Leaves Girls for ‘Lysandre’ 2013-01-09T13:00:00Z The result is a sprawling overview of the group’s brisk rise and protracted fall, punctuated by gripping confrontations with the powers that be. Can a Comic Book Contain the Drama and Heat of Activism? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Norfolk has been thinking lately about a day near the beginning of the pandemic, when she and her children set out on a bright, brisk morning toward a nearby lake. Being stuck at home with the kids is hard. So is sending them back into the world. 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z These and other plates are delivered by a brisk staff that you might recall from visits to Paris, except the Washington crew cracks more smiles. Bistrot Lepic review: The Georgetown bistro will make you forget 14th Street 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z But Ms. Snook sustains the brisk, pragmatic air of a hockey team captain, and what should be a folie a deux becomes madness for one. The Anger on London’s Stages Is Palpable, and Thrilling 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The brisk opener is promising, with a series of quick introductions that sketch in each woman’s identity and suggest the hurdle each will soon confront. ‘Wine Country’ Review: Searching for Laughs in a Midlife Bacchanal 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z The piecing is helped by reading Mr. Ferrer’s brisk, opinionated if sometimes self-serving account of his life and artistic development that is a marvelous self-portrait of a young artist finding himself. Art Review: Rafael Ferrer at El Museo del Barrio 2010-06-10T21:56:00Z The brushwork — breezy, brisk — anticipates Matisse’s views through hotel windows in Nice. You know Monet and Manet. This female Impressionist deserves your attention, too. 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z This is a band with dynamic flux in its DNA, and brisk technique in its bloodstream. ArtsBeat: Winter Jazzfest: Pretty Postbop From a Comfy Seat 2013-01-12T01:17:35Z A lot of movies over a short period of time—and now, thanks to Eastwood’s brisk work pace, one more. 'American Sniper' targets Christmas; Oscar hat trick for Cooper? 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z After all, it ferried party guests to Gatsby, whose “station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains.” Eyeing the Unreal Estate of Gatsby Esq. 2010-09-30T20:30:00Z Gently brush the heap into a dustpan using short, brisk strokes. The Clean Queen Talks Quarantine 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Their brisk steps become more obsessive as they converge into packs. Review: Ballet BC Touches All the Bases, but One Yearns for More 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Analysts said the brisk international growth was partly due to recent launches in European countries including France, Germany and Austria. Netflix shares surge on subscriber growth 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z In Alison Anderson’s brisk, colloquial translation from the French, “Life Form” fuses the sincere with the subversive to tell a story as winning as it is perverse. ‘Life Form’: a fan’s notes to a novelist 2013-02-06T23:32:45Z But “More Than Meets the Ear,” released last year, is the first big band effort under Mr. Eubanks’s name, with brisk new arrangements deftly executed by peers like the saxophonist Antonio Hart. Jazz Listings for Sept. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z There’s a brisk question: Is the man ready? “Burlap” 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z And while the energy remains high and the pace brisk throughout, it becomes increasingly, painfully clear that the gentle chaos swirls through the early scenes because it’s swirling through Louis’s poor head. ‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’ Review: The Cat’s Meow 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Frühbeck de Burgos molded this sound into a reading rich in drama and grandeur, and emphasized those same qualities and sonic attributes in a brisk, magnificently emphatic rendering of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Music Review: Dresden Philharmonic Led by Rafael Fr?hbeck de Burgos at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-12T22:35:40Z Then both partners ducked into brisk staccato cross talk — scatlike syllables, percussive tonguing — with the tension and convolution of a quarrel in a Robert Altman film. Pairings Fulfill ‘A Night of Improvised Round Robin Duets’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Characters are drawn in brisk, broad strokes, and with little of the complex ambiguity that fueled the later Harry Potter instalments. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z He’ll bustle around Wall Street on a brisk afternoon, teaching the people who sell $1 coffees and buttered rolls how to avoid fines for stationing carts too close to a curb. A Food Cart Worker’s Biggest Job: Defending Vendor Rights 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z But after just a few hours of brisk deal-making on the floor of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on Tuesday, any lingering worries appeared to be temporarily assuaged. At Asia’s Hottest Art Fair, Taking Selfies With a Mao ‘Corpse’ 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z And she does a brisk trade in wedding jewelry, often using lace snipped from the bride’s mother’s or grandmother’s wedding dress. Beyoncé Is Bonkers for This Woman’s Lace Jewelry 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Those qualities, reconfigured to yield a trim, Classical sound, enlivened a brisk performance of Mendelssohn’s youthful String Symphony No. 7. Music Review: Fledgling Musicians Spread Their Wings 2010-10-06T21:48:00Z In “Temporary,” a brisk, wildly imaginative first novel by Hilary Leichter, the unnamed protagonist is a temp worker who trudges between 23 jobs. ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Outstanding visuals, both in 3-D and standard 2-D mode, keep the characters at the forefront and the action brisk and fluid. Game On: Hits, misses among the 3DS launch titles 2011-04-05T19:37:04Z Before we get too comfortable with that setup, the plot turns into a thriller laced with paranoia and grief, before picking up the already brisk pace into the frantic sprint of an action flick. With "Da 5 Bloods" Spike Lee triumphantly reflects with Black experience of the Vietnam War 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Despite brisk winds, they hired a fire eater. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Sales of holiday decor are brisk at the new Goodwill that opened last month in Alexandria, Hurley says, where millennial shoppers hunt for the perfect vintage ornament to perhaps grace a table-size tree. Boomers are ready to retire from holiday hubbub, but their kids won’t let them 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z A long nine years in the making but a brisk hour and a half to watch, Ringside offers plenty of classic boxing underdog moments, but no tidy answers. Ringside: inside a powerful boxing documentary made over nine years 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z But now, she is brisk and no-nonsense with her staffers, who were dutifully taking notes on — and bites of — the lunch menu. Amy Brandwein doesn’t answer to ‘Roberto Donna’s girl’ 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z As on the opening night of this production last month Mr. Levine’s tempos were sometimes broad and sometimes brisk. ArtsBeat: Levine Buoyed by Well-Wishers During Next-to-Last 'Walk?re' 2011-05-10T16:15:03Z This year's debut album proper is no less brisk, comprising 16 songs in under 16 minutes. This week's new live music 2012-06-15T23:05:20Z The first movement was brisk — as is Welser-Möst’s wont — but easygoing in its phrasing, without exaggeration, even in emphasis. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Keep the coals medium-hot, brisk enough to cook the vegetables without letting them become scorched. A Mixed Grill to Remember 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z If there is a sense of urgency this time around, it seems to be to get the trial moving along at a brisker pace before more jurors fall asleep. Asleep at the Roger Clemens trial 2012-06-10T13:00:00Z Tempi were brisk, with a sense of momentum carried from one aria to another, to the last bar. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Wintour starts her day early with a brisk game of tennis, which left me with a lot of questions, the first of which was: why am I up at 5.30am? Can I cook like ... Anna Wintour? 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Yet this brisk documentary, steered by the fond recollections and admiring voices of famous beauties — Charlotte Rampling, Catherine Deneuve, Isabella Rossellini, Grace Jones — is as averse to analysis as its irrepressible subject. ‘Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful’ Review: Man With a Camera 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z At Rough Trade, her approach was brisk and efficient, her demeanor relentlessly sunshiny. Debbie Gibson Goes Shopping for Vinyl Records 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z There was nothing dogmatic about his performance — which the NSO played on modern rather than period instruments — but his brisk, athletic tempi kept the piece animated so that it rarely dragged. NSO offers warm seasonal cheer with McGegan’s lean and homely ‘Messiah’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z This brisk, efficient film is set to a catchy soundtrack. and it is fun, albeit contrived, to hear "I've Gotta Be Me," or "The Impossible Dream," as Hutch takes care of business. In the joyfully violent "Nobody," Bob Odenkirk channels his inner John Wick 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z This brisk, inventive comedy doesn't quite bring satisfying depth to its rather stock characters. 'Leaving Iowa': A slightly different take on father-son bonding 2012-05-31T20:23:12Z Most of the figures for this year aren’t in, but United Sales participation is apparently up 7 percent, Screen reported, and American sales have been brisk. Critic’s Notebook: Many Films Still in Running at Cannes for Palme d’Or 2013-05-23T22:01:08Z Amid these brisk entrances and exits is an utter commitment to form: a wild, full-bodied harmony, in which rhythm has no choice but to be ignited from the inside out. Review: Dancing the Night Away With Brazil’s Cia Suave 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The body’s momentum, whipped up by a brisk calligraphy of the limbs, keeps the axis swaying off-center. Review: Brian Brooks Moving Company Keeps Things Off-Center at the Joyce Theater 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z She swerved from giddy good cheer to cloying intensity, a bipolar persona that often clashed with the bland, brisk professionalism that is morning television. The TV Watch: Ann Curry’s Tearful Goodbye From ‘Today’ 2012-06-28T21:30:38Z The fast outer movements were brisk, crisp and confident. Jennifer Koh Accompanies the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The trick: stay seated, and let the engine pick up your slack and ferry you up steep pitches with about the effort of a brisk walk down a flat city street. The Swiss Alps on an Electric Bicycle 2011-08-26T19:00:31Z A brisk midtempo beat clicks and ticks quietly through the tracks, with unassertive bass lines almost humming to themselves; later the propulsion becomes just slightly more insistent. Playlist: Melodic Wanderings, Starting in Timbuktu 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z Ms. Mearns, never rushed by this, creates marvelous dynamic variety within it, often finding time to phrase with seeming slowness, while rising to its briskest passages as if riding the full power of a wave. Review: ‘Swan Lake’ Features an Authoritative Sara Mearns 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z And Mr. Riley’s “Catskill Beaver” begins with brisk passages in the style of the Cuban composer Leo Brouwer and morphs into an Asian style, with graceful melodies from Ms. Wu. Music Review: Time for Sharing the Love and the Record Labels 2011-07-20T22:28:31Z Which isn’t to disregard the actual music in the production, which not only bridges the anecdotes but also maintains the brisk tempo of the show. ‘Lackawanna Blues’ Review: A Soulful Master Class in Storytelling 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The brisk exchange over Iraq highlighted a defining feature of the two-hour debate: It brought the top three Democratic contenders into close proximity and gave them their first real chance to joust in public. Democrats Focus on Iraq In Contentious Second Debate 2007-06-04T10:00:00Z And if business is as brisk as people say it is, by the time Art Basel ends on Sunday, Mr. Feldmann may have made another $100,000, and probably more. Inside Art: Stars of Venice Shine in Basel 2011-06-16T20:58:17Z Alarmed by notes sent home from school nurses or frantic calls from baby sitters, parents are giving specialists like Ms. Goldreyer brisk business. Killing Lice Is a Growing Business 2010-04-09T20:00:00Z It seems appropriate to end a review of this brisk book with a few of Ms. Wilmers’s words. Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z There’s no resisting Delgado’s brisk musicality, the sharp action of her legs and her focus, just as sharp. Review | Crazy concept meets magical execution in ‘DEMO: Now’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z His writing is conversational, and the pacing here is brisk, despite the author’s tendency to repeat salient points about certain clubs and characters. When Rent Was Cheap and Dance Music Reigned 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Their collaboration is the substance of Pamela Katz’s brisk, bright and somewhat thin book, “The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink.” Pamela Katz’s ‘The Partnership,’ on Weill and Brecht 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z After a brisk introduction, viewers are sorted into four breakout rooms. Review: In ‘Return the Moon,’ Theater Between Phases 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Some bake as a hobby, while others do a brisk business selling cakes in places where getting to a bakery requires a plane ticket. In Alaska’s Far-Flung Villages, Happiness Is a Cake Mix 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z In “Blaxploitation,” a brisk funk bass riff carries sound bites about revolution and Noname rapping at top speed about systemic racism, stereotypes and constant tension: “I’m struggling to simmer down/Maybe I’m an insomni-black.” On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Conductor Michael Christie enforced brisk tempos and transparent textures but still overpowered some of the cast’s lighter voices. A younger audience for a classic opera at the Kennedy Center 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Hahn edited the video down to a bit more than a minute of unflashy content then posted it, with all the brisk efficiency of a social media intern, to Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. Hilary Hahn Practices in Public, Wherever and However She Is 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z This quiet, brisk film runs just a little over an hour and a half. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘The Night Of’ and ‘The Circus’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The chapters are brisk — a page or two long, with titles like “Bleach,” “Body,” “Stain.” Helping Out Family Is Taken to Extremes in ‘My Sister, the Serial Killer’ 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z For his first Glastonbury appearance in 10 years, 77-year-old Nelson delivers a brisk stroll through his back catalogue, cramming in 30 songs in under an hour. Willie Nelson at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-25T16:51:00Z Granted, in the Stabat Mater, especially, he gave some of the most doleful passages brisk, driven music. Music Review: Sacred Works by Pergolesi at Church of the Epiphany 2010-03-29T21:11:00Z As at the Maryland Grand National, the horses start in the old way, carry their riders at a brisk but not punishing pace, and jump many timber jumps — all about 3-foot-6. My Horse Country 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Absurd and nearly wordless, the brisk 75-minute show at BAM Fisher is composed of a series of vignettes. Review: In ‘Dimanche,’ a Climate Emergency Comes to Stay 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z It was a brisk account, neither particularly grand nor intense. Review: Another Week, Another Philharmonic Podium Candidate 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z That day in Paris, standing backstage, she greeted each guest with a brisk ceremonial nod. Critic’s Notebook: Rei Kawakubo, of Comme des Garçons, Veiled Like Mona Lisa 2012-05-30T23:34:55Z His business, LibFood, ships Liberian dishes across the world, and does brisk business around Thanksgiving — particularly for the collard greens, simmered in a stock of dried fish, ham hocks and smoked Cajun turkey. Marking a Different Thanksgiving Tradition, From West Africa 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z When Mr. Blake was on the verge of overheating, they shifted neatly into a brisk walking swing. 2010-02-15T01:06:00Z It's all as brisk and jaunty as you'd expect, but Toksvig keeps the narrative generously laden with laughs, as with her recent senior moment when she experienced deja vu and amnesia simultaneously. Sandi Toksvig – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-27T17:00:15Z With the rest of the industry on pause, late night staffs, those veterans of brisk joke-writing and speedy episode turnarounds, were destined to become entertainment TV's version of first responders. Live from their homes: Late night hosts are back to show we're all in this together 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z He drew lithe and articulate playing from the Philharmonic in the dancing Presto movement and in the bustling finale, taken at a brisk but steady clip. Music Review: Manfred Honeck Leads New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher 2013-01-05T00:58:01Z Ms. Schreck’s brisk declension, from outrage to sly satisfaction, underscores the quicksilver changes in feeling that are also a hallmark of the comedies. Theater Review: A ‘Comedy of Errors’ Unfolds in the ’40s, With Fedoras 2013-06-19T02:00:01Z Even with appearances from the bulk of TDE’s talented roster, the show moved at a brisk pace, with Lamar taking the stage just minutes after blossoming R&B star SZA capped her magnetic set. Kendrick Lamar proves he’s the most vital rapper in America at White River Amphitheatre 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z The group’s glowing sound, combined with brisk, unsentimental tempos, create readings of unusual freshness and discovery. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z If Amis’s book is like hurtling down a black-diamond ski run, hers is more like a brisk day on the cross-country trails. Two Generations on View in Essays by Martin Amis and Zadie Smith 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Cohn was a paradox, and so is this documentary — a brisk, entertaining, quite full primer that nevertheless feels like it missed an opportunity for a unique angle or approach. ‘Bully. Coward. Victim.’ Review: The Paradox of Roy Cohn 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z She broke toys “at a brisk pace,” liked to clean up spills but then tried to eat the sponge, was potty-trained but did not empty the potty after each use. Remembering Koko, a Gorilla We Loved 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Founded in 1840 in Covent Garden, Angels does a brisk business with costume designers for movies, TV and theater productions, as well as stylists and magazine editors. The Shop Where Oscar Hopefuls Go for Costumes 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z In his composition and his conducting — which he managed with the brisk efficiency of a bank teller giving change — he was the antithesis of the romanticized stereotype of egoistic, heaven-storming musician. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Owing to its sizeable and long-lasting legacy, it was at once immediately familiar, yet also brisk and brutally fresh. 'A total blast': our writers pick their favorite summer blockbusters ever 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z What’s more, the audience sat, silent and respectful, until the final curtain, a brisk three hours later. Review: Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Hamlet,’ Cocooned in an Aura on a London Stage 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The empty winter streets, brisk but never too-cold air, and golden afternoon sun made for superb and invigorating perambulations. Favorite Place: Wintry Wanderings Among Chelsea’s Ghosts 2013-12-26T22:18:07Z In any event, Kimmel’s unwavering dedication to keeping things moving resulted in an upbeat telecast that ended early but felt full, helped by a hosting style that was brisk and edgy but never unkind. Emmy Awards catch up to fans: Finally, Academy voters are watching the same shows we are 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z All three albums feature serious, style-blending guitarists and brisk, authoritative saxophonists. Critic’s Notebook: Jeff Ballard and Other Jazz Drummers Step Out Front 2014-02-05T23:02:56Z I am, however, optimistic that weight loss of 5% or more combined with a brisk walk for 20 or more minutes daily will significantly reduce cardiovascular and total deaths.” Obesity could be more dangerous than smoking 2013-02-01T19:54:00Z The placenta was less eager to make its debut; the cord snapped, and my OB—a … brisk woman—reached on up there with her hand to pluck it out of me. Here’s How It Went When I Had the Baby 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Kendall’s synthesis of varied materials is brisk and lively, infused with musings on gender, the mysteries of individual artists and the larger relationship of ballet to shifting political structures. Books of The Times: ‘Balanchine & the Lost Muse,’ a History by Elizabeth Kendall 2013-07-29T21:09:20Z Hoss’s work is impeccable and illuminating, and the movie’s foursquare, frank, brisk approach is salutary. ‘The Audition’ Review: A Violin Teacher on the Verge 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The 6,000-or-so fans crowded into the San Diego Convention Center's Hall H on Thursday afternoon came alive during a brisk, high-energy Disney presentation of Mr. Bailey's upcoming offerings. ArtsBeat: Disney Is Back at Comic-Con, Hoping to Turn a Corner 2012-07-13T02:22:19Z In almost half the ballet, Mr. Ratmansky’s choreography strains hard against the music, often working in brisk, quirky staccato character against music that is softly melodic or unrhythmically atmospheric. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Dream’ and ‘Firebird’ 2012-06-22T22:43:10Z Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, found that brisk walking reduces the risk of heart disease more effectively than running. Put your best foot forward: why walking is good for you 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The strands are many, but the plot stays brisk. Newly Released Books 2011-07-20T21:21:46Z Its shortcomings are thrown into relief by its brisk and taut successor, The Magnifying Glass. The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar ? review 2011-01-20T23:59:01Z “The Philosophy Resistance Squad” keeps a brisk pace, but — like his chief villain — Grant cares more about concepts than about character development. Schools of Thought Control 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z The moment passed, and life resumed its brisk clip. “Do we know any poor people?” 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z After that, we'll be needing a brisk Summer Breeze "blowing through the jasmine" of our minds. Readers recommend: songs about smells – results 2013-07-04T13:00:02Z How does one improve on a film as brisk, pungent and bracing as this? The Ladykillers: No 5 2010-10-18T10:49:00Z A creaky lantern hangs from the ceiling; she reaches toward it and, with a brisk shove, sets it swinging on its precarious hinges. ‘Then She Fell’ Is Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Life and Work 2013-08-09T18:49:22Z The one-two punch of comedy and reality got the night off right, so by the time drama followed the brisk pacing that eludes most award shows was evident. New faces keep Emmys broadcast fresh 2010-08-30T07:28:00Z The show’s second half, which focuses more directly on Columbine, is fresher, brisker and more propulsive. Review | ‘Columbinus,’ re-creating the 1999 Colorado high school shooting, remains disturbingly relevant 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The University of Newcastle Chamber Choir from Australia sang “The Owl and the Pussycat” and deftly navigated the brisk counterpoint of a lively arrangement of “Slangpolska Efter Byss-Kalle,” a Swedish folk dance. Music Review: Rhythms of One World Festival, From Friendship Ambassadors 2012-06-29T21:35:34Z In “Daredevil,” after percussive thigh slapping introduces a track full of brisk cross-rhythms, she sings, “I don’t feel anything until I smash it up,” adding, “Don’t let me ruin me.” Pop: Fiona Apple’s New Album, ‘The Idler Wheel’ 2012-05-30T12:00:00Z Too many songs kick in with the same brisk, toytown beat and thin, high guitars. The Drums: The Drums 2010-05-27T14:29:00Z This is a semester-long film studies survey course compressed into 15 brisk, sometimes contentious hours. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Story of Film: An Odyssey,? by Mark Cousins, at MoMA 2012-01-31T23:43:58Z Despite good reviews and initially brisk business, "we weren't open long," said Gruber. 'Deli Man' serves you a sandwich and pulls up a chair 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z He's been well schooled in the basics of TV drama: sell the story, give the actors space to do their thing, keep the pace brisk and efficient. Oscar's Big Secret: Love and Death in Argentina 2010-04-25T02:35:00Z The night ends, more than five hours after it started, with a brisk trade in jewellery and no fewer than 28 watches. 'Something for the man cave': rich pickings as Russell Crowe's divorce auction nets $3.7m 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z A brisker pace could tip this show from good to great. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 8: Ramble On 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z This brisk 70-minute drama begins with a few particulars of birth and upbringing, but almost immediately it shifts to the camps. ‘The Good and the True’ Recounts the Holocaust 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z He walked a little faster, at times approaching a brisk trot, and breathed a sigh of relief when he finally arrived at his vehicle. Meet the super-serious Sasquatch chasers of America’s premier Bigfoot conference 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Yet, while embracing those brisk qualities, they also entertain such contradictory elements as idiosyncrasy, irrationality and visual repose. John M. Miller, artist behind painstakingly painted geometric abstractions, dies at 77 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z However, an unfortunate series of mishaps draws her inexorably back into the action, yielding a brisk narrative that offers a thoughtful reflection on societal attitudes on the aging process in Korea and elsewhere. Speaking in Tongues: Novels in Translation From Around the World 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Welser-Möst took brisk tempos, at times driving the music with relentless energy. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic Plays the Ninth Symphony 2014-02-26T22:13:26Z In fact, there are heavy rhythms here, and the sort of sound effects you might hear on a "leftfield" record, but there is also a lightness of touch that keeps things brisk and bouncing. New band of the day ? No 913: Niki and the Dove 2010-11-19T16:31:00Z This is a crew attracted to roving abstraction but capable of tight focus and brisk concision. New Music: BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE 2012-12-31T22:21:39Z “Mini-breaks are a swirling nebula of nonsense!” he says at the top of “Copenhagen,” during a brisk montage of him in Venice, Copenhagen, Vienna, and Moscow. “Travel Man,” Richard Ayoade’s Travel Show for People Who Hate Travel 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The tweet flurry was a brisk change in programming from the feed’s customary bland stream of “updated gift rules,” “ethics dates and deadlines” and “amended supplemental #ethics rules.” How the U.S. ethics chief took on Trump and became a reluctant Washington hero 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The MGM hops as if it were happy hour, everyone brisk and focused. The sweet scent of the suburban American casino 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z A brisk promenade through a masterpiece of urban landscape design followed by an inviting, inventive meal—it was the perfect closure to an extraordinary week in the City of Light. Jewelry Designer Temple St. Clair Carr's Guide to Paris 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Her nimble transformation back into a feral creature is brisk, dauntingly so. From City Ballet, ‘Hear the Dance: Russia’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z He has reconstructed his films in the form of a brisk classicism, a tautly conceived and meticulously timed set of incisively written sketches that seem as breezy as they feel substantial. Noah Baumbach’s New Movie “While We’re Young” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z An exhortation to think, innovate and dream, the phrase becomes the title of an infectious song in this brisk show about Frank and Flora Conrad, who launched America’s first radio station 100 years ago. Review | ‘On Air’ at Creative Cauldron is a tuneful, engaging tour through little-known history 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z While the alphorn and the accordion were doing brisk business, fate hadn’t proved so kind to the zither, which might date back as far as the 1500s. In Switzerland, a musician searches for the ‘Holy Grail’ of instruments 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z This time it was Thierry Fischer's turn to deliver a brisk interpretation of the inscrutable Eighth. Northern Sinfonia/Fischer – review 2013-03-18T17:49:30Z Davenport sets a brisk pace, skis and poles flowing efficiently forward, extensions of his limbs. In the Colorado Rockies, going to extremes with legendary skier Chris Davenport 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Child abuse cuts a jagged scar through Morrison’s novel, a brisk modern-day fairy tale with shades of the Brothers Grimm, and a blunt moral: What you do to children matters. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Egan, who covered the American West for The New York Times and now contributes to its Web site, is a brisk and muscular writer, with a knack for vernacular prose. Books of The Times: ‘Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher,’ by Timothy Egan 2012-11-11T23:33:07Z Plan a brisk walk afterward to work it off. 2010-02-08T16:42:00Z Its brisk piano chords and buoyant beats created a kind of trampoline for the star to bounce off refrains of Olympic skill. Aretha Franklin’s 20 Essential Songs 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The director of this brisk documentary, Michael Dweck, clearly considers it lively and eccentric, and does a committed job trying to convey that. ‘The Last Race’ Review: Long Island’s Fading Car Craze 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Sales of print dictionaries remain brisk and are a profit center for some publishers. Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z His brisk, airy, reflexive technique is designed to bring his reflections and activities to the fore in the actual time of their occurrence. Movie of the Week: “Caro Diario” 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Ticket sales were brisk for the yearlong revival; critical reception proved slightly cooler the second time around. 50 years of 'Cabaret': How the 1966 musical keeps sharpening its edges for modern times 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s a brisk quarter-mile walk from there to the ticket booth at the foot of the Trinity Tower, the Kremlin’s main entrance for tourists. Moscow in the Winter, Alive and Illuminated 2011-11-25T06:01:08Z For them, to acquire a concept is to steal it from the person who explained it, a theft that is consummated by a brisk tap on the forehead. Review: In ‘Before We Vanish,’ the Aliens Have a Lot of Questions 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z I’m not aware of that, beyond having called on some of the brisker, even arbitrary narrative conventions of film, though I know both of these references and recall the pleasure of their hurtling story lines. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Expect brisk tempos from Mr. Zinman, one who supports the notion that Beethoven’s metronome marks, disputed over the centuries, were probably what he wanted after all. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z Offill’s writing is often brisk and comic, and her book’s format underlines her gifts. In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ Paranoia Is Delivered With Humor 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The indomitable Fine amasses evidence, addresses objections and accumulates footnotes at such a brisk pace that the panting reader wishes at times for a water break. Not From Venus, Not From Mars: What We Believe About Gender and Why It’s Often Wrong 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Bonobo overlaid the brisk beat of house music with plinking counterpoint hinting at Steve Reich. Electric Zoo Returns Under Watchful Eyes 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The plot is dispatched with brisk cartoon mime, allowing Bintley ample stage time for dancing, from an extended divertissement for sapphires, emeralds and pearls inside the Cave of Riches to a leaping, tumbling carnival dragon. Birmingham Royal Ballet: Aladdin – review 2013-02-18T11:49:51Z When little visitors pull this fake toilet’s handle, it responds with images and explains, in the warm but slightly brisk tones of a no-nonsense nanny, that what we excrete provides clues to our well-being. ?EatSleepPlay,? at Children?s Museum of Manhattan 2011-11-10T22:04:12Z Mr. Welser-Möst also took a brisk tempo in the third movement, the “jolly gathering.” Review: The Cleveland Orchestra Plays Strauss With Abundant Color 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s brisk and dry, complex, energetic and delicious, with lingering flavors of lime and wet stones. 10 Reasons You Should Give Riesling Another Look 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z After the conclusion of the 15th fugue, someone in the audience let out an admiring, brisk “bravo.” Review: Igor Levit Takes on a Shostakovich Kaleidoscope 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z It means the injection of a certain humour in the dialogue … and a brisk clarity in the narrative. Critical eye: book review roundup 2012-10-12T21:55:12Z Featuring a bladelike quintet with Mr. Mahanthappa on alto saxophone and the impressive young Adam O’Farrill on trumpet, it’s a whirligig of brisk dynamism and bustling modernity. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z None of this plays as heavy as it may sound, maybe in part because the short episodes — after the pilot, each is a brisk half-hour — focus more on building character than on loading up plot. ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Okay’ Review: Half-Siblings, Whole Family 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z But most viewers respond to the picture for the same reasons their grandparents did: it’s a movie made without pretense but with serious wit, brisk glamour and eternal star quality. Which Is The Better Best Picture: Casablanca or Platoon? 2012-02-13T13:59:29Z On her brisk, no-nonsense website, Tana French — whose new psychological thriller, “The Witch Elm,” enters the list at No. 7 — promises her readers: “I’ll do my absolute best not to waste your time.” We Decided to Spend Some Time on Best-selling Novelists’ Websites. Here’s What We Found. 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Those extras are too brisk; you want to spend an hour, not two minutes, with Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley, who tell a story, with marvelous suspense, of dancing “Méditation” at its premiere. Bounding Across Space and Time, via DVD 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The foul weather has meant local stores have done brisk sales of jackets, sweaters, closed-toe shoes and umbrellas. Nerves of steel and hairspray are musts for Cannes red carpet 2013-05-22T10:13:35Z A brisk, melodically exotic percussion figure, for example, sounded like a sped-up gamelan. Critic’s Notebook: Robert Beaser’s Guitar Concerto at June in Buffalo Festival 2012-06-13T21:58:39Z “Duologue,” their new album, puts them on equal footing, cutting to the heart of their musical kinship: brisk fluency, crisp flexibility, and a capacity for coming up with magic on the spot. Jazz Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z He opened his speech with three brisk pronouncements of Trump’s greatness and then paused to encourage those who were in Laura’s path to “stay safe.” Perspective | Mike Pence had a few things to say at the convention: Trump is great. Trump is great. And Trump is great. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The other is this guy, Gutfeld, and his friends, doing brisk business by laughing with the red cap wearers, wrapping his primetime colleagues' anger in sweeteners they recognize. The late night rise of "Gutfeld!" is telling us something. It isn't funny, but that doesn't matter 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z She asserts control over her destiny with a brisk asperity that never reveals many glints of warmth, rendering the romantic comedy of the play almost an afterthought. Review: ‘The Merchant of Venice’ With Extra Fog, Moral and Atmospheric 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Hitherto, I’d felt bakers to be a breed apart from cooks – brisk, efficient, organised people who at the same time had access to some mystical prowess. Nigella Lawson: my life in food 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z On a recent brisk afternoon Ms. Reyes, 24, sat on a Columbia campus bench — wrapping a vintage fur coat around herself to guard against the chill — as she compared her former profession to school. Exchanging Slippers For Schoolbooks 2010-12-03T15:27:00Z Many also take a brisk climb up the 125-foot Bowman’s Hill Tower for panoramic views of the Delaware Valley. Be like George Washington and cross the Delaware River, to Lambertville, N.J. 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Still using pastel on paper, Severini portrayed society women in a bland manner made only slightly modern by brisk strokes that point to his recent acquaintance with French Neo-Impressionism. Art Review: Severini and Van Dongen, Restless in a Rudderless 20th Century 2011-06-10T12:19:58Z Fascinating case histories, both famous and not, help keep the pace brisk. 'The Man Who Couldn't Stop' a rich, reasonable look at OCD 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Charles Isherwood While the cutoff for Tony eligibility has put a sudden stop to the brisk traffic of openings on Broadway, the May docket for Off Broadway has been extensive. The Week Ahead: May 23 ? 29 2010-05-20T20:56:00Z Cooper deftly shuffles moods and emotions throughout the brisk one-act show, often within the same scene. ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ Review: After Great Tribulation, an Exodus of Black Citizens 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z It starts with brisk drums and bass and a cruising rhythm, but then a siren arrives. Algiers Blasts Songs of Damage and Redemption on ‘Shook’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z I suggest a brisk tour of the horizon of poverty and deprivation in order to ready him for the wielding of the axe. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z Louis Langrée, the music director of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted a brisk, crisp performance, stolid only in an oddly sleepy crowd scene at the start of Act 4. Elina Garanca Reprises Her Role in ‘Carmen’ 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z "I found it, my north," he gushes, "smoking and babbling, battling and loving, scattered and glittering, lush and brisk … rickety and plush, conspiring and crackling." The North (And Almost Everything In it) by Paul Morley – review 2013-06-13T09:01:01Z Mr. Shaham deserved better: He built in intensity through the long performance, his tempos brisk but never rushed. Review: Bach’s Violin Solos, With Numbing Video Accompaniment 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Online bidding before the live auction was surprisingly brisk. Design royalty is all atwitter about the Prince of Chintz auction 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Daniels’s funny, evocative vocal choices are a highlight of the brisk, often funny but intermittently flat audio play, streaming free on Studio’s website. Review | Audio adaptation of Beltway drama ‘Kings’ tantalizes but ultimately falls flat without a stage 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z It is in any case a grand creation, and Mr. Nézet-Séguin, despite generally brisk tempos, gave it full weight and impact with the Mostly Mozart orchestra and the Concert Chorale of New York. Music Review: Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-05T21:43:45Z When I asked Mr. Hastings if Mr. Sarandos would pass, he was brisk: “Ted has passed the Keeper Tests for the last 22 years.” Ted Sarandos Talks About That Stock Drop, Backing Dave Chappelle, and Hollywood Schadenfreude 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z In an hourlong conversation, Garten — brisk, sociable — discussed her passion for French butter, Nordic dramas and a very American musical. Ina Garten Delights in Hitchcock Thrillers and Her Mini Cooper 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Each of the film’s beaded, brisk vignettes shows the members of a close-knit community driven by petty desires and, occasionally, courage, while the horses bear mute witness. Movie Listings for March 13-19 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z On a brisk fall day, he attends the CrossFit annual summit in a conference center just west of Dallas. Mr. CrossFit vs. Big Soda: A profane fitness guru’s wonky war with the soda industry 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z And independent bookshops such as Politics and Prose and Kramerbooks do a brisk business with book signings and lectures. The reign of beige: In a political town, design stays neutral 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Impressively, "Gangs of Wasseypur" manages its sprawling story lines deftly and maintains a brisk pace throughout its daunting length. 'Gangs of Wasseypur' is epic in every sense 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Earlier productions I saw dragged at times in Act II, but Wechsler’s new staging of it is ragged and brisk. Revisiting a Post-Apocalyptic Play in the Pandemic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z That the Oscars managed a watchable show, much less the brisk, entertaining one we got, was a surprise. Nobody Hosted the Oscars. And They Did a Fine Job of It. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z But the brisk sales for the Bowery and Beacon shows prove that, four decades later, their fans remain both passionate and devoted. A New Start And a Gumbo Of Old Sounds 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z The palate tends to be muted, unless it’s a brisk pop of lacquer red, or perhaps an ovoid of “school soap” to place on a silver spindle. The Robust Preciousness of Labour and Wait 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The movie begins with a promising, characteristically energetic Miller-esque whoosh of swooping cameras, brisk editing, pops of colors and a sense of urgency. ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Review: Desire, Once Upon a Time 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Under Thomas Coté’s brisk direction, swift scene changes — no small feat for a play with so many — allow the momentum to build as the audience puts the pieces of the plot’s puzzle together. | 'Interchange': In Five Different Lives, Many Ties That Bind 2010-10-19T22:50:00Z I remember trying to be brisk and unobtrusive when I cleared her untouched plate — is it possible I wrapped it up for him to take home? Everyone should wait tables 2013-12-14T00:00:00Z Reinhardt chose some particularly brisk tempos, but nothing sounded hurried or rushed. Seattle Symphony’s ‘Messiah’ inspires hallelujahs 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z I never regret jumping in, no matter how brisk the experience. Chill out: Go swimming outdoors 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z On the 1986 film "Aliens," Cameron's first big studio production, the British crew and editor rebelled against the brisk working tempo. James Horner's music, James Cameron's film visions intertwined 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z This year, while business was brisk, buyers were more cautious after several higher-profile movies from 2011 failed to perform as expected at the box office. "Beasts," "The Surrogate" aim for post-Sundance success 2012-01-29T22:32:03Z Taking place in brisk real time — just 90 minutes — it sits in on a small-town council meeting. 12 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z But this month brings a selection of novels and short stories that can hold their own with a thriller, in this case the third installment of Olen Steinhauer’s brisk Milo Weaver spy series. New Fiction From Olen Steinhauer, J. G. Ballard and Others 2012-03-28T22:20:12Z On a brisk October morning, a crowd of 30 artists, designers and curators gathered in downtown Oaxaca, Mexico, to toast a new public art space. In Oaxaca, a Meal to Celebrate a Pioneering Artist’s Legacy 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z On Monday, Mr. Mason said the market continued to do brisk business. The Face of Houston’s Diverse Dining Scene Is a White Guy From Nebraska 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z I always keep in my kitchen cabinet some brisk and full-bodied tea from Assam for preparing sweet and milky masala chai when the craving returns. What does Mom want for Mother’s Day? Tea, nibbles — and time with you. 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Beyond the brisk storytelling and wordsmithery, however, lies bittersweet insight into rural Black America and the challenges of clawing one's way out of the rigged system held over from a former Confederate state. New page-turners heat up our summer reading: "Blacktop Wasteland," "The Only Good Indians" and more 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z But the concert’s brisk pacing and sparkling artistry kept it from feeling formulaic, even when it probably should have. Music Review: Four Pianists, Teaming and Competing 2011-07-22T23:35:20Z The film now runs a brisk 100 minutes. Arts & Leisure: All-Star Cast for Steven Soderbergh?s ?Contagion? 2011-08-26T21:36:34Z He switches to a Three Rum Scum, a kitschy concoction advertised as "a brisk inbreeding of three different rums," before moving on to a series of Miller Lites, downed from the bottle. Stand-up comedian Doug Stanhope laughs in the face of self-destruction 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The show’s strengths are a streets-and-squad room texture that feels authentic, brisk pacing and novelty — when was the last time we saw a crime scene turn into a debate over union rules regarding pay scales? | 'The Bridge': Aaron Douglas Stars in a New Police Series on CBS 2010-07-09T22:24:00Z Here sex workers are shown visiting a Buddhist shrine and praying for brisk business before punching a time clock and arranging themselves behind a glass window. Movie Review: ?Whores? Glory,? a Documentary by Michael Glawogger 2012-04-26T23:42:17Z "The Nobodies Album" is brisk and engaging, though ultimately it features little in the way of conventional clues or suspense. 'The Nobodies Album': Trying to set right the stories of her life 2010-07-08T20:34:00Z As Yaz, Ms. Guevara exudes a brisk competence that occasionally falters to reveal the harassed insecurity of a woman who has had to fight to grasp every opportunity life has tossed her way. Theater Review: ‘Water by the Spoonful,’ at the Second Stage Theater 2013-01-09T03:00:00Z Smino and Saba collaborate on “Plead the .45th,” sketching paranoia and resentment in brisk, jazzy phrases. History Meets the Present on the ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Album 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Wild Beasts’ debut, “Limbo, Panto,” had brash indie-rock guitars and flamboyantly theatrical vocals; their second, “Two Dancers,” was punctuated with brisk dance beats. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-09T22:28:22Z On a brisk Tuesday night in November, about 40 students crowded into the L.G.B.T. Generation LGBTQIA 2013-01-09T21:10:18Z The initial version of “Margaret,” while seeming in no way rushed, does seem remarkably brisk for a movie of its length. Movie of the Week: “Margaret” 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z I parked my rental car right in front of the narrow, mostly takeout Tuhama’s and knew immediately I had come to the right place: business was brisk. A Tour of the Middle East, and More, in Dearborn, Michigan 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Chasin’s talks, as delivered by Butler, are brisk and deft, cognitive chew toys to worry as you walk or ride home. ‘Fragments’ Review: Guest Lectures from a Famed Professor 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Far more frequently, though, the dancing flows over, rather than with, the music’s beat: it’s a boat sailing steadily over the steady brisk pulse of engines or oars that propel it. Dance Review: Royal Ballet of Cambodia at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-05-03T22:54:41Z When you're craving warmth and comfort as the weather turns brisk, this rich and creamy pasta is bound to satisfy. If you’re craving comfort, this umami-rich pasta is bound to satisfy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The crust snaps like kindling, and then the sandwich is all creaminess, salt and heat, deeply basal flavors and brisk, bright ones, every note seemingly struck at once. For Banh Mi, Violet’s Bake Shoppe Has the Math Down 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The result was dialogue that was sometimes sung, sometimes spoken, and considerably shorter and brisker than some editions: For once, “Carmen” didn’t drag. WNO’s ‘Carmen’: Enlivening the familiar 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Bell chose a brisk tempo for the opening “Kyrie,” thereby sacrificing an optimal expansiveness of sound. Review | Washington Chorus pairs unlikely works offering reflection and reconciliation 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z “We recommend that people do 30 minutes of moderate exercise, such as a brisk walk, five times a week,” he says. Can high-intensity interval training delay the ageing process? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z When you're craving warmth and comfort as the weather turns brisk, this rich and creamy pasta is bound to satisfy. If you’re craving comfort, this umami-rich pasta is bound to satisfy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Director Steve Barron, who helms six of the eight episodes, uses his music video background to great effect in creating a brisk rhythm and visual drama to the series. In PBS' playful "Around the World in 80 Days" David Tennant channels Jules Verne's liberated spirit 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z This is instead something slightly more sustained and intermittently low-key — a playlist I’d listen to when doing a strength-training routine, a jog or a very brisk walk. 11 Songs That Will Make You Want to Move 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z He believed the work to be basically a comedy, and so the piece should move at the brisk pace Strauss intended, not lingered over sentimentally. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T10:55:00Z The most striking painting here is “Waves,” which is simply a series of horizontal bands of brisk cross-hatches in soft green, blue and purple that is also being seen here for the first time. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z But even in 97 brisk minutes, Linton can wear out her welcome. With "Me You Madness," Steve Mnuchin's wife creates a bold, bipartisan comedy to annoy us all 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z It was fresh, creamy, brisk, balanced and refreshing, a terrific wine and a good value. 10 Sparkling Wines for Leaving 2020 Behind 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z But the dainty high-heeled shoes led the collection away — perhaps too far — from that brisk, daytime reality. Special Report: Fashion: Giorgio Armani Sends Out a Shimmering Collection 2011-09-26T17:07:04Z In Washington Stage Guild’s sometimes starchy but brisk and watchable production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Candida,” Ribler’s version of the poet Eugene Marchbanks provides both the chief entertainment value and the narrative logic. Review | A giddy poet lights up ‘Candida’ 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z At recent shows, she has begun with a brisk tour of her back catalog before playing her current and most daring gambit, “Masseduction,” in full. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Conducting "Don Giovanni" for the first time and playing the recitatives from the harpsichord in the manner of Mozart's era, Luisi led a brisk and musically satisfying performance that included many fine details. Review: One dull `Don Giovanni' replaces another 2011-10-14T19:06:15Z In sharp contrast, pictures painted by the heirs of 20th-century Germanic Expressionism using the traditional brush and oil paint triggered brisk competition. A Dreary Sense of Duty Reigns at Auctions 2010-07-02T16:30:00Z He zips in with the zinger with brisk dispatch and delivers it not with blunt force but with the throwaway grace of a crack shortstop turning a double play. Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z While Feldman is hardly known for his economy, the earlier piece is almost brisk, its structure compressed and clear, by comparison. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z In their truest form they are slapped together with brisk fingers by the roadside, forged on hot plates and handed over wrapped in newsprint or jumbled on a leaf. The Top 10 Cheap (and Well-Traveled) Places to Eat in 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z On a brisk Saturday last month, the runners snaked past construction cranes and over bridges and through crowds of strolling local families and tour groups. Next Stop: Hamburg?s HafenCity Project Draws Visitors to the Harbor 2010-07-16T19:57:00Z The show relies on a brisk pace, plenty of sass and the easygoing charm of its stars, Noah Wyle and Rebecca Romijn. What’s on TV Wednesday: Golden Globes History and ‘The Fake News’ 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z She wrote a second book, a brisk, darkly comic contemporary novel, “Every Day Is Mother’s Day,” which became a critical success when it was published in 1985. For Hilary Mantel, There’s No Time Like the Past 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z All evening, Gilbert's tempos were brisk, and the playing predictably virtuosic. New York Philharmonic sticks with American classics at Santa Barbara Bowl 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Clocking in at a brisk 40 minutes, "Rabbit à la Berlin" was one of last year's Oscar nominees in the best-documentary-shorts category, and it's easy to see why. 'Rabbit ? la Berlin': a bunny's-eye view of the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall 2011-02-17T21:29:13Z In the busy main foyer and its connecting corridors, you dodge wheelchairs and nurses and brisk doctors in blue scrubs. Perspective | Knock yourself out in the Ether Dome 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Lands End is usually less crowded than some of the other local spots, but on this sunny but brisk Saturday, the main parking lot was full. This San Francisco hike offers nature, history — and unobstructed views of the Golden Gate Bridge 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z But like the characters in her play, this brisk and chilly production is desperate for a little human touch. Review: In ‘The Good Girl,’ a Sexbot Gets Weepy 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z So, yes – I freely admit there have been times when I have been short with people under those circumstances and have thought, 'Oops, that was a bit brisk'. Why I was rude and other writers' woes 2010-05-11T08:37:00Z The result is brisk and breezy, but “there are dangerous shoals of sentimentality” as Marius-Pete finds himself falling for his new family, Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Sneaky Pete’ and ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z But their stories, intercut with archival footage over a brisk and frequently harrowing 81 minutes, build to a pitch of horror and sadness that eventually allows for a note or two of hope to sound. Review: ‘Destination Unknown,’ Nazi Camps Through the Eyes of Survivors 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z While teaching a men’s class over the summer, he was clearly in his element as he led dancers through a brisk series of jumps. School of American Ballet Enlists City Ballet Members 2012-09-30T04:00:05Z Fishburne, 60, was speaking, in that velvet baritone, a few hours before his call at Circle in the Square for the Broadway revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo,” a brisk study in hustle and flow. Laurence Fishburne Cools Down With Classic Jazz and Cashmere Blankets 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z That is, she doesn’t “treat” it at all—she reports, with brisk efficiency. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z “Tehran Taboo” aims to expose systemic hypocrisy; in that respect, it is brisk and bracing. Review: ‘Tehran Taboo’ Exposes Double Standards About Sex in Iran 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z And Edward Einhorn’s brisk direction initially crackles with life and energy, overcoming some of the stilted language in Anthony Berris’s translation. | 'Pangs of the Messiah': ?Pangs of the Messiah? at 14th Street Y - Review 2011-11-09T22:38:44Z He simply led his 53 singers, 4 soloists and the moderately scaled Artemis Chamber Ensemble in a generally brisk, shapely performance that focused on the work’s devotional core and celebrated its extraordinary structure. Music Review: Canticum Novum Singers in Bach Mass at St. Jean Baptiste 2012-05-21T22:03:12Z She was brisk and methodical, her ponytail swinging as she maneuvered for each new hold. Jaina Lee Ortiz, Star of ‘Station 19,’ Tries Her Own Stunts 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z “The overthrow of three decades of military dictatorship … and the brisk advent of democratization,” he writes, “led to a major boom in the assassination industry.” Murderous Husbands, Flapper-Era Gun Molls and Korean Assassins: The Best Winter Thrillers 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z One of the pleasures of all this tension was the amplified release: when Mr. Lovano got a brisk open lane in “Sprints,” against a walking bass line, the effect was exhilarating. Music Review: Sound Prints at the Village Vanguard 2012-11-30T23:43:30Z Her bedside manner is brisk and kind, her boredom nonjudgmental. Yrsa Daley-Ward Breaks Out of the “Instapoetry” Pack with Her Memoir “The Terrible” 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Clover Club is more cocktail lounge than restaurant, though it does brisk brunch business. Tipsy Diaries: Summertime Is Bloody Mary Time at Local Restaurants 2010-07-08T21:56:00Z Both James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis have done good work in the past at establishing mythological worlds while still keeping the story moving at a brisk pace, but here that feat eludes them. Alita is a fascinating badass. "Alita: Battle Angel" fails her at every turn 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z In a brisk, unvarnished style, he artfully balances Olmsted's achievements with his personal limitations. 'Genius of Place': the restless genius of Frederick Law Olmsted, America's first landscape architect 2011-06-22T19:04:05Z After this initial brisk whiz through the play, we start anew with another algorithm. Theater Review: ‘A Piece of Work,’ a Computerized ‘Hamlet’ Mash-up at BAM 2013-12-19T21:16:36Z Even his brisk, driven reading of the finale prized textural clarity over forcefulness. Music Review: Nikolai Lugansky Performs at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-05-24T22:55:00Z Her writing was brisk and vivid, her focus on story more than style. Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman: 'I'm looking forward to redressing the balance for teenagers' 2013-06-05T12:54:04Z With their typically stripped-down textures, brisk tempi and bright, incisive orchestral colours, the performances promise to be exhilarating. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair – review 2012-10-01T17:18:24Z This smooth and brisk presentation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of one of America’s most accomplished poets is enriched by recently discovered documents. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Langrée conducted a reading notable for its brisk tempos in the opening movement and dynamic shadings throughout, with a striking contrast between pianissimo and forte passages that created an arresting tension. Music Review: Isabelle Faust Solos for Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:27:23Z However, anyone coming to London to watch the procession or camping out could be in for a cold and wet experience, with weather forecasters predicting showers and a brisk wind. William and Kate in final royal wedding rehearsals 2011-04-27T09:48:49Z These career passages are related in brisk, frill-free chapters that are sometimes skimpy when you’d like a little more fleshing out. Books of The Times: Glory and Misery on the Way to Stardom 2010-10-07T22:52:00Z But inside Brrrn, the cool fitness studio in the Flatiron district where the temperature is kept cool, it felt like a brisk November morning. Are Cold Workouts the New Hot Yoga? 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Potter doesn’t quite have the tragedy Stevie Nicks so effortlessly channels, but she nonetheless finds moody pockets for her voice while the band hones a chilly take on brisk rock. Review: Grace Potter Stretches Her Sound on ‘Midnight,’ Her Debut Solo Album 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z In Kate Whoriskey’s brisk and thoroughly satisfying production for Second Stage Theater, we learn that, unlike Oedipus and his mom, people who may have little else nevertheless have choices. ‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z This is a brisk, readable account of the intersection between these two women, but its subtitle is a misnomer. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Close Relationship With the Journalist Lorena Hickok 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But the play goes on to examine the catastrophe in brisker, tighter sequences that adopt varied perspectives. Gala’s ‘Yo También Hablo de la Rosa’ punctuates its social commentary with humor 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The pace was brisk, with artists shuffling on and off the stage, most of them more than once. Music Review: ?Robert Johnson at 100? at the Apollo Theater 2012-03-07T19:51:48Z In the end it wasn’t any single skirmish that led to my air of weary resignation, but rather a brisk accumulation of them, quickening into a blur. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z His leadership of the Budapest orchestra emphasizes transparent textures and brisk forward movement, with a strong sense of presenting precisely what is on the page. Finally, a Well-Staged ‘Don Giovanni’ in New York 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z But, for the most part, the filmmaking is staid, neither sober nor frenzied but conventionally brisk. Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” Reviewed 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Hua's brisk yet blunt storytelling style doesn't waste time with sentiment, as story after story follows these various characters who practice deception. March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Feuer tells a brisk, compact tale, but he could have used a few pages more to take us to the other side of the wall of mirrors. What It Took to Get El Chapo Behind Bars for Life 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z As Kevin Parker warns about wallowing in nostalgia, his music flaunts it, with a brisk triplet beat and production that revisits the 1980s. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Montalbano’s adventures are brisk diversions, and he’s excellent company: perceptive, slightly jaded, of a certain age, admired by the ladies and always enthusiastic about the next meal. New crime fiction: Sterling Scottish noir; deadly politics in Houston 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z At Miss Pixie’s Furnishings & Whatnot near Logan Circle, mid-century dressers and credenzas are brisk sellers. The reign of beige: In a political town, design stays neutral 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The rest of the show was fairly brisk and contained a few surprise winners. Golden Globes: Lots of ‘La La’-dee-da, but a wake-up call from Meryl Streep 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z In Dilip Hiro’s brisk and clear history of partition and its effects, “The Longest August”, evidence piles up of the great, long-lived cost of all this. Divide and rue 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z A crisp, purposeful day in Walsall town centre, and the market is doing brisk business. Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts 2010-04-28T05:00:00Z The essence of low-budget filmmaking and a landmark of film noir, Ulmer’s brisk, grimy contemplation of the anonymity of the American road and the cruelties of fate seems tailor-made for beat-up prints and cheap DVDs. 3 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z At 82, Hopkins is sometimes asked to advise young performers, and he’s happy to hold court in a video call, telling them stories from his career with brisk, good-natured efficiency. Anthony Hopkins Makes It Look Simple. (And Maybe It Should Be.) 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z In the shop, there is the brisk sound of hungry shoppers. The Butcher Shop Keeping Old World Delicacies Alive 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z A brisk mile’s walk north, the corporate behemoth Gap is taking another company’s misfortunes and making Lululemonade. Critical Shopper: For Fitness Gear and Workout Clothes, Sweaty Betty and Athleta 2013-12-30T23:51:43Z On this windy and brisk Saturday night, Baltimore's theater district – dotted with concert venues, bars and seafood restaurants – drew large crowds and local television stations to the sold-out show. "This was real and raw": Fans weigh in on Chris Rock's special, from trans jokes to Slap clapback 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The brisk, often violent action drama is about a global spy network, also called Citadel, charged with keeping the world’s peace, often through unpeaceful means. The Spies of ‘Citadel’ Have Big Plans: Global Domination 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z It's true that Wyndham's preference is for no-nonsense, brisk, wry narrators, and the horrors that visit the books can seem like opportunities to show off good old British pluck. John Wyndham: The unread bestseller 2010-12-20T16:12:31Z Throughout, Mr. Nunn has resorted to similar tactics, breaking up long speeches to create more brisk exchanges between characters, reordering and eliminating scenes, turning speeches into songs. Review: In ‘Pericles,’ Much Ado About a Lot of Things 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Using examples from his own work, Mr. Zinsser taught students how to write brisk, compelling stories, largely by clearing their sentences of clutter. William Zinsser, author of the classic guide ‘On Writing Well,’ dies at 92 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Ticket sales have been brisk for the Broadway material Finn has been championing. Perspective | How the Kennedy Center’s theater chief sniffs out Broadway-worthy winners 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Fans of Kohan's earlier work will no doubt lap up the show's brisk, darkly funny tone. Catch-up TV guide: from Glastonbury 2013 to Ray Donovan 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z Walking down Broadway, my father was setting a brisk pace, and my mother and I were having trouble keeping up. Our Last Father's Day Lunch at Gitlitz's 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z This brisk pace largely continues for the rest of the movie as Marie hurtles through time, making history, trouble and babies. ‘Radioactive’ Review: Marie Curie and the Science of Autonomy 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Philippe Jordan, the Paris Opéra’s music director, led a light and agile, brisk but not rushed, performance. Review: A Starry ‘Don Carlos’ Brings Verdi, in French, to Paris 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Written by Max Middleton, then the keyboardist in Beck’s band, “Freeway Jam” is a brisk shuffle that materializes and fades out as if it’s excerpted from a jam session, though parts are clearly mapped out. Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Things lighten up as the album winds down with toss-offs such as “Too Drunk To Drive Drunk,” “Black Girls” and a brisk run through Hank Snow’s “Movin’ On.” Album review: Joe Louis Walker, 'Hellfire' 2012-01-30T20:04:00Z The beginning and end of the show are another form of drama — the detailed, though brisk, autobiographical story of the title figure. ‘John’ at the National Theater in London 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z This is half the fun of the book, which proceeds at a lively pace in a brisk, appealing style. David Kynaston’s ‘Modernity Britain: 1957-1962’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Mostly, he favored brisk tempos, bright timbres and a clean if sometimes weighty sound. 2010-01-08T03:50:00Z There was something provisional about the performances – a brisk efficiency, rather than the searching breadth late Schubert demands. Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-02T18:35:21Z On a brisk Sunday after church, nine days before the election, Walton stood in the driveway of one of her supporters in a predominantly White, upper-middle-class neighborhood that she will probably lose on Tuesday. In Buffalo, a democratic socialist vies for mayor in a race she thought she’d already won 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The sprightly half of a brisk double bill directed by Orla O’Loughlin at 59E59 Theaters, it’s presented by the Traverse Theater Company of Edinburgh as part of the Brits Off Broadway festival. Theater Review: ‘A Respectable Widow,’ About an Unusual Friendship 2014-04-13T21:06:55Z That moment delivers a wash of patient quiet and humanity after 80 minutes of brisk drama. Review: ‘Upload’ Asks Old Questions With New Technology 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Again, the filler “There is” can sometimes simply be left unsaid, if you’re aiming for a brisker tone. Memo to schoolmarms: It’s OK to use incomplete sentences 2013-04-18T17:09:00Z The picture moves at a brisk pace, though, and Mr. Hauser’s mostly cool and collected avenger is somewhat fun to watch. Review: ‘Acts of Violence’ Delivers What Its Title Promises 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z And so he bids a brisk farewell to lacy fishing nets and regimes of barefoot push-ups on an Irish beach at dawn. How Did Bram Stoker Dream Up ‘Dracula’? A Novel Offers Hints 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Dutoit, who at 75 is still wiry, kinetic and commanding, began with a brisk, emphatic account of the exuberant Glinka overture. Music Review: Charles Dutoit Conducts Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T04:01:15Z It’s a brisk and friendly introduction to linguistics, and a synthesis of the field’s recent discoveries. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Rather than illustrating the text, it becomes a purifier in which the superlative Mr. Neumann remains coolly distant, no matter if he is executing slow, exaggerated knee bends or taking brisk hops with flopping wrists. Review: In ‘I Understand Everything Better,’ Ruthless Elemental Forces 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z More virtuoso knife skills reduced celery root to crunchy matchstick batons that frolicked in brisk vinaigrette with sweet sultanas and chives. A quirky name and creative cuisine combine at Blind Pig Bistro 2012-02-16T21:35:04Z Those songs were built around snappy catchphrases and brisk, punky riffs. Review: ‘Revolution Radio’ Finds Green Day Still Unsatisfied 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The production's pacing is brisk, and the spirited choreography by Joshua Bergasse occasionally turns acrobatic. Updated 'Gigi' still a relic of its era 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Each stanza consists of one complete sentence, broken into six short, uneven lines whose rhythms lift and fall like the movement of small, brisk waves. Poem of the week: Stowaways by Lawrence Sail 2011-01-31T10:20:36Z “Today we wanted to recover,” Joseline Garcia, 27, said, rubbing her hands together and looking up at an American flag that flapped in the brisk winter wind. Freshman blues: Inside the new House Democrats’ unsettling first year 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “An unfortunate series of mishaps draws her inexorably back into the action, yielding a brisk narrative,” Carlos Rojas writes, reviewing the book with two other novels in translation. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Throughout, Chaze’s sentences are lean and brisk, while the scenes he sets in roadside bars, a sheet-metal factory and the Colorado mountains are especially well done. New life for a noir masterpiece: ‘Black Wings Has My Angel’ 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z As the weather turns brisk, the days shorten and we spend more time inside, we turn to the types of dishes that offer comfort, and if they also warm up the kitchen, even better. A Roast Chicken With Fall Flavors 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z On a brisk Saturday in October, as giddy tracks by Destiny’s Child and Naughty by Nature blared, there were lithe fashion boys tangling on the dance floor and willowy models climbing banquettes like mantises. Up Close: Travis Bass, Impresario of the Night 2012-11-05T22:37:03Z Many of the songs were refreshed by brisk tempos. Molly Ringwald Sings at Café Carlyle 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Despite clocking in at two and a half hours, “Independence Day” is remarkably brisk, especially compared with our modern lumbering giants. Four Movies About Summer to Stream Now 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Brittle tostadas scoop ceviche, a brisk mix of chopped seafood, citrus and cilantro that gets an added jolt from orange-chipotle sauce. A taste of exceptional everyday Mexican cuisine at Mezcaleria Oaxaca 2012-03-08T23:34:51Z Concluding the concert was an account of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor, stirring for its brisk tempos, taut rhythms, transparent textures and refined solo work by the principal winds. Music Review: An Exuberant Conductor and a Starry Violinist 2011-08-07T21:48:50Z Here, there are more runs into slides and lunges as the dancers — swarming together and peeling apart — move with tense, brisk efficiency. Review: Ballet BC Touches All the Bases, but One Yearns for More 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The Oscars this year were surprisingly brisk, and nowhere was this more apparent than with the speeches. How the Vice make-up team won the Oscar for world's worst speech 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Musicians and tech people have all become brisker about interactions, communicating online and speaking quickly and efficiently in rehearsals. A ‘Girl Singer’ and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The poet laureate of this kind of tale is the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth, whose brisk, skittering books pounce on everyday experiences, revealing beneath their forensically detailed surfaces pools of risk and doubt. The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Her brisk emotional portraits of Americans are disarming, unpredictable, funny, sad, and, yes, at times enraging. ‘The Insurrectionist Next Door’ Review: Getting Personal 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z They had a similar response to the Sibelius, which here was anxiously brisk and occasionally furious. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Argues With Passion 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Taken to a safe house, he is subjected to a brisk waterboarding by the local CIA chief; apparently our authorities still thinks the technique works. Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy? 2012-02-09T16:00:14Z And it’s not that no one has been interested in trying to mint another Schwartz hit on Broadway, where the business is brisk for his “Wicked” and “Pippin.” Two noted and nomadic musicals destined for D.C.? But I have a sentimental attachment to the brisk, direct older style, especially when it comes from a careful, traditional producer like Burlotto. 20 Wines for Under $20: The Spring Edition 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z There's the early morning log-on, the quick and accurate scan of the day's news, the brisk queries and scheduling, the exchange of scripts of articles or edited book extracts. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Mr. Cruise’s brisk, ingratiating performance — all smiles, hard-charging physicality and beads of sweat — does a lot to soften the edges. Review: ‘American Made’ Has Lies, Spies and Coke. Tom Cruise, Too. 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The story of clashing personalities and adventures gone wrong was dull and uninspired, but the cast members, clearly enjoying themselves, kept things brisk and mildly entertaining. ‘Vacation Friends 2’ Review: Last Resort 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z In this brisk 1969 Ivorian feature, a young man, convinced he has left superstition behind for an independent, modern Africa, has visions of a woman who may represent a repressed, romanticized past. This Festival Could Alter Your Sense of Film History 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The first time, he rises to vertical stance very weightily and slowly; he’s brisker on later occasions. Review: Mark Morris Is a Citizen of the World at the White Light Festival 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The broadcast flowed at a brisk place, which contrasted nicely with the loose energy and spiky passion of the most memorable acceptance speeches. The Joyous, Fragmented, and Slightly Anxious 2019 Emmy Awards 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit goes once more unto the breach, bringing a brisk distillation of this Shakespeare drama to prisons, shelters and rec centers, then returning home to Astor Place. 9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z This is an intriguing idea, but it struggles to maintain its heft through the brisk survey of American political history that follows, starting with the country’s founding. Are We More Divided Now Than Ever Before? 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Stutzmann found in these young singers an enthusiastic partner, and they followed her gleefully, over cliff after cliff in some exceedingly brisk tempo choices. Guest conductor invigorates ‘Messiah’ in spirited NSO program 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Director Walter Dallas counters the unimaginative dramaturgy by drawing an energized performance from Wilson: The pace is brisk, the stories charge forth, and Wilson prowls the intimate lab space left and right. Review | ‘Thurgood’ serves Justice Marshall in George Stevens Jr. tribute drama 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z On a stylish set by Beowulf Boritt, featuring fire escapes and stoops silhouetted against blood-red vistas of the neighborhood, the action moves at a brisk, almost cinematic clip. Review: ‘A Bronx Tale: The Musical’ Doo-Wops Down Mean Streets 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The pianism on “Heart of the Piano” is never less than impressive: rhythmically sure, harmonically sound, full of brisk subtleties of touch. New Music: Skylar Grey, Okkyung Lee and Geoffrey Keezer on New Releases 2013-07-08T21:37:49Z On “Expansions,” he sounds like a jazz bassist, walking a brisk line, before switching to arco and summoning scraping cries and heaving groans out of the strings. Abdul Wadud’s Cosmic Cello Music Gets Another Moment in the Sun 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z The Adams music is like him: efficient, impressive, unyielding and oh so brisk! Dance Review: Three Twists on Classical Style, in Movement and in Character 2011-05-18T22:15:22Z “We Are,” the single, is brisk and arresting, and “Find You on My Knees” suggests Ms. Jobe has listened to at least a little Evanescence. Playlist: New Music by Kari Jobe, Mohombi, Bhi Bhiman and Others 2012-02-03T18:28:06Z At its best, it’s a brisk, silly plucking of some low-hanging contemporary fruit. ‘An American Pickle’ Review: Keeping It Kosher 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z With Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” in Ravel’s technicolor orchestration, Oundjian drew out every unusual sound, brisk tempo and dynamic extreme. Guest conductor sets a fast tempo for Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Robert Redford delivers a glorious, sly performance in a movie that masks its idiosyncrasy in brisk and breezy storytelling. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z His style of conducting appears brisk, yet Karabits is also able to temper the discipline so as to embrace a much more lyrical approach to phrasing and carefully soften the effects. BSO/Karabits - review 2011-03-13T15:01:13Z The show is a brisk, often slyly touching standup performance that explores everything from donut overconsumption to unrequited love, and reminds you the ways in which both can wreak such havoc on the heart. Comedian Jeff Garlin isn't afraid of political correctness 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Accordion makers in other Italian towns also did brisk business. Italian Town Corners the Market for High-End Accordions 2011-07-01T20:30:06Z His style is brisk and kinetic, which you sense in the Scottish play’s opening scene, when a critical battle is fought in about 45 seconds. Review: ‘Macbeth,’ Accelerated, at Public Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Leaves are scattered meaningfully inside the Uruguayan and Japanese pavilions, as if a brisk and symbolic wind had just blown them in. Radical Rethinking at Biennale: Africa and the Future Share Pride of Place 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Though reports arose after her death that her business was struggling, Ms. Goldman said that she did a brisk business selling the collection. On The Runway: L’Wren Scott: A Legacy of Elegance 2014-03-21T21:01:46Z Her Bathsheba is brisk and practical, frank and friendly, and a little impatient with the trio of suitors who admire her moxie even as they compete for the honor of suppressing it. Review: ‘Far From the Madding Crowd,’ the Rom-Com 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Yet even without good prose or a thrilling plot, "Midnight Sun" manages to be a fun read, with a likable protagonist and a brisk, page-turning pace. 'Midnight Sun' is a softer, gentler Jo Nesbø - as far as that goes 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But “More Than Meets the Ear,” due out in November, will be the first big band effort under Mr. Eubanks’s own name, featuring brisk new arrangements deftly executed by peers like the saxophonist Antonio Hart. Jazz Listings for Aug. 28-Sept. 3 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z And yet there is something commendable in the film’s brisk pacing and tight informative focus, one that allows the narrative of villainy to speak for itself without dramatic embellishment. | 'The Spill': Above It All: Tracing BP?s Imperious History 2010-10-25T22:21:00Z Here, however, Graham contributed mock-solemn self-parody plus a string of brisk corps excursions punctuated by Williams in a long white dress. Missing the Martha in Martha Graham Dance 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Full of rich toffee, resinous pine and earthy hops, it’s a beer that smells — and tastes — perfect for a brisk day. Beer of the Week: Union Craft Brewing Foxy Red IPA 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The temperature gauge in our car plummeted to a brisk 38 degrees. Away Is Home | Natural disasters vs. your vacation 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Service is a plus: the staff is cheerful, brisk and devoid of pretense. Collections Café a congenial addition to Seattle Center 2012-09-20T20:45:03Z It was fine when I ran in for a quick, brisk dip, but not comfortable for a long swim. Tranquil, Sandy Refuges From Bustling Santiago 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “In brisk chapters, we glide swiftly, smoothly, only to realize that we’re not approaching a clearing but being led into a darker, more tangled story.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z But I did down a memorable classic Italian hoagie at The Produce Place in North Cape May, which does a brisk business in sliced deli-meats and sandwiches. Old Hunger, redux: East Coast foodfest 2010 2010-05-20T14:54:00Z But over all, these brisk early chapters show the characters taking charge of their destinies in a way that avoids clichés about fame. Books of The Times: To Wagner, With Love and Morbidity 2010-12-27T23:09:40Z After the magazine was printed, though, his gallery, otherwise doing a brisk business for him, refused to show the work. Winold Reiss, an Immigrant Modernist Way Ahead of His Time 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z A brisk wind swung the boat’s nose landward, causing the men below to strain at their yellow ropes as if they were reining in a wayward balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. New Victory for World War II PT Boat: Restored and Museum-Ready 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z There was a brisk gust of wind; the trees lining the path swayed. Fancy dress by Kate Horsley 2010-12-26T00:05:12Z His cabin, after all, was only a brisk walk away from the genteel town of Concord. Going offline: the benefits of a break from the internet 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z As of Tuesday, the San Jose store already “appeared to be doing a brisk business” the Mercury News reports; it will hold its official grand opening Thursday. Amazon opens a brick and mortar bookstore in Silicon Valley — plus another — this week 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Take a brisk walk across the Wobbly Bridge to the Tate Modern afterward. Critic?s Notebook: In London, Stalking the New 2011-05-25T04:14:30Z Everything feels brisk and breezy, just as it should on a Sunday afternoon in the park. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z Wanda Maximoff created her sitcom bubble to escape dread and sadness, the same reason we turn to those brisk and digestible shows in times of distress. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe comedy is a woman's work 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Novoselic then made his departure, Burckhard went off to sit in with Black Top Demon, and vendors did a brisk business in t-shirts sporting a condensed version of the new mural. Krist Novoselic returns to Aberdeen for Nirvana mural dedication 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z “Some patients have such a brisk reaction that it makes tumors look bigger,” Atkins says. She made a career out of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The three younger boys are with her as she slogs through rush-hour traffic on a brisk November afternoon. How a small school for gifted kids in the D.C. exurbs gets big results 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z What ensues is a brisk, well-mounted children’s fantasy, with Cornish giving the story an entertainingly apocalyptic spin. ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Review: Cult Director Waxes Arthurian 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z When Mr. Mitchell erupts into a brisk tap routine, he suggests a game but uneasy new recruit to that form rather than an old hand. ‘The Band Wagon’ Stars Brian Stokes Mitchell 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z It was not slaughtered with one brisk pen stroke on a designer’s sketchpad. A history of the final dying days of the power suit 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The text is matched by vivid, loosely painted watercolors and the animals, limned in brisk black brush lines, exude charm. When First We Practice to Deceive 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z A brisk, spirited sprint through the hits and almost hits is what’s in demand. Replacements reunion: Genius or folly? 2013-07-12T18:03:00Z Demand, though, far exceeded supply, leading to brisk business in the gruesome trade of bodysnatching, where gangs of what were known as resurrection men stole corpses from the capital's cemeteries to sell to anatomist surgeons. Murderer James Legg's gruesome tale revived for anatomy exhibition 2012-09-30T14:34:49Z Without breaking stride, she answers that question with brisk detours into mind control, telepathy, mentalism and the like. Breaking Out of Prison With a Ouija Board and Some Clever Tricks 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z His 1974 hit “Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town” is a brisk two-and-a-half-minute list of everything that had him hitting the road away from there in the first place. What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z With brisk sales as well for brand-name musicals like “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” and “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” the lesser-known shows are struggling to grab theatergoers’ attention. Shows Like ?Sister Act? and ?Priscilla? Struggle on Broadway 2011-09-03T00:09:21Z In “4” the dancers — always close together in the same diamond formation, always in unison, and often turning to face every which way — move nonstop for perhaps half an hour to a brisk rhythm. Dance Review: Tao Dance Theater at Alice Tully Hall 2012-07-26T21:24:32Z Pieces of furniture notoriously difficult to sell, such as beds of no great age, triggered brisk competition. Auctions: Art Buying Spree at a British Estate 2011-09-16T13:30:07Z The original is poignant and effective, but maybe a tad too brisk and drowning in digital effects that obscure the song’s heart-rending core. The Playlist: Ariana Grande Shows Her Heart, and 8 More New Songs 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The auctioneer, a skilled master with a brisk manner, called out £2,000, quickly repeating the bid. Auctions: Seesaw Bidding Early in the Season 2011-09-09T11:00:09Z And Ms. Beck’s brisk and composed Alice comes across as merely waspish instead of vitriolic. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Imagine, for a moment, standing in New York’s Grand Central Terminal: the brisk movement of human bodies, the announcements over the speakers, the crescendo and diminuendo of incoming and outgoing trains. A Sonic Tour of New York Landmarks 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z To revisit it now, when disaster seems less immediate, is to relax into the brisk pleasure of the work. Review: Finding Community in ‘As You Like It’ 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z After the performers cross the stage as a pack, leaning deeply forward as soon as they reach its edges, they break apart, executing brisk triplet steps. Review: Seán Curran Company in a Cross-Cultural Exchange 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The broadcast was brisk and entertaining, the ratings for the hostless event rose and the awards show decided to leave the post vacant. Review: A Driverless Oscars Takes a Winding Road 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Anchoring it is that of Bach, with a gorgeous slow movement framed by brisk and communicative playing. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Messiaen, Schubert and More 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “Little Eyes” is a novel-in-stories about these keepers and dwellers — a brisk survey of 21st-century life as seen through the inscrutable camera eyes of a plausible and revealing consumer fad. The Cute Little Devices Are Watching You 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z All of this is contained in a rather slim, if congenially brisk, volume. George Mitchell wrote 'A Path to Peace' about Israel and Palestine. Is there one? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The songs, chosen from performances over two brisk autumn nights, don't lie. Olivia Chaney's 'Longest River' album flows with distinctive beauty 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z There are brisk cameos by Churchill and Woodrow Wilson, desperate flurries of wireless messages and telegrams, quick flashes to London and Berlin. Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ About the Lusitania 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Stitching together cheery oral testimonies and frustratingly fuzzy archive material, Ms. Osmond counters the sparseness of visual record with brisk re-enactments and a Welsh chorus of quipping cronies. Review: In ‘Dark Horse,’ a Real-Life Steeplechase Champion Inspires a Town 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z In order to keep the plot brisk and economical, the parents die early, in a shipwreck. ‘I must have watched it 50 times’: a Frozen dad prepares for the sequel 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Expect more Glee Cast debuts next week as titles from the episode and album "The Power of Madonna" are currently selling at a brisk rate. Rapper B.o.B leads chart, Glee crew ubiquitous 2010-04-22T22:29:00Z He tended to gloss over big moments with infuriatingly brisk tempos, and the crunching appoggiatura on the work’s final chord, one of the most eloquent dissonances in all of music history, simply failed to register. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z He apparently preferred my brisk pace to the lollygagging, toddler-in-tow gang, and so we became trail buddies. Frugal Traveler Blog: On New Zealand's South Island, Farm Stays With Friendly Hosts 2012-03-27T18:03:35Z There was a brisk elevator and, in the lobby, a vending machine and two always-occupied computers that offered an Internet connection for a price. Check In, Check Out : Tune Hotel in London 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z The orchestra’s new conductor, Steven Reineke, took the songs at a brisk pace that allowed little room for introspection or for savoring Lerner’s meticulous turns of phrase. Music Review: ?Best of Lerner and Loewe,? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-20T22:14:00Z But given the communal vibe in the packed Bowl and the generous, nearly three-hour set from a 67-year-old on a brisk night, that was entirely forgivable. Paul McCartney thrills L.A. crowd with hits, tales 2010-04-01T00:20:00Z He goes on two brisk walks daily and avoids restaurant food, as his doctor recommended he lose weight. The Diet Worked For Them. Now Their Pets Are on It. 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The artful touches are welcome in a production that otherwise tends toward the efficient, businesslike and brisk. ‘Duchess of Malfi’ at Capital Fringe: A brisk tale of revenge Even in the brisk finale he dazzled by stressing the line’s lyricism rather than its challenges. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Honors Dutilleux at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-06-27T20:50:47Z The saxophonist Jon Irabagon closed a recent set at the Jazz Standard with “The Original J,” a brisk new tune in a willful state of flux. Jon Irabagon Paints Tradition in New Hues 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z It is floral and brisk, with flavors of almonds, pears and discernible minerality. 20 Wines Under $20: Plenty of Variety and Not One Chardonnay 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The United States Department of Health and Human Services recommends at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week, or roughly five 30-minute brisk walks. Urban Athlete: Walking in a Winter Wonderland in New York City Parks 2013-12-19T23:42:38Z The tour bus full of drag queens sped through rural Wisconsin on a brisk afternoon a few days before Thanksgiving. Is This the Golden Age of Drag? Yes. And No. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z I look back on that brisk April night a year ago. A nourishing soup to heal the cracks 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z Patients are asked how many days a week on average they engage in moderate or strenuous physical exercise, like a brisk walk, and for how many minutes? It’s free and everyone knows how to do it: The craze that’s sweeping the nation — we hope 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Kristin Scott Thomas is his wife, Clementine Churchill, a woman of brisk confidence and ironic disposition who long ago made peace with her secondary place in his public life. Review: ‘Darkest Hour,’ or the Great Man Theory of History (and Acting) 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Stevenson’s essay is a brisk and eloquent snapshot of the history of American crime as seen through the lens of race. Review | With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z A brisk climb punctuated by postcard views of Los Angeles landmarks: the Hollywood sign, the Santa Monica Mountains, the gauzy downtown skyline. The Amy Adams Method 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z But the New York ethos of competitive walking dictates a brisk strut, with tense moments as the more vigorous, goal-oriented walkers overtake aggressively, or thread their way through narrow seams. The High Bridge, a Scenic and Serene Cousin of the High Line 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z “Oscar wanted to build a durable brand,” said Mr. Bolen, who has a brisk, fast-talking manner and a shelf full of family photographs. Keeping the Oscar de la Renta Name Alive 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z In 2006, Leigh Montville published “The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth,” a brisk, engaging account of Ruth’s life. Babe Ruth, the First Modern Celebrity 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Ticket sales have been brisk, and organizers hope for a bigger crowd. The Middleburg Film Festival, a work in progress, is making progress Silky tomato butter pooled in the dimples of creamy cornmeal; brisk bacon vinaigrette moistened the trout’s crackling skin. Le Petit Cochon: Enjoy gastro adventures, head to toe 2014-02-06T22:33:44Z His heavy downbeats precluded lightness, but not an enthusiastic, brisk spirit. Review: New York Youth Symphony Fearlessly Tackles Beethoven’s Ninth 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z The Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit goes once more unto the breach, bringing a brisk distillation of the Shakespeare drama to prisons, shelters and rec centers, then returning home to Astor Place. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z With the coaster going at a brisk 73 miles per hour, it appeared as though the goose could have mortally wounded Fabio. Fowl play: the mystery surrounding Fabio's fatal goose-to-face collision 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Kai sets a brisk pace as the trail lurches up from the wash, then levels for the long haul. A father-son backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon is an introduction to adventure 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Business was off sharply after a brisk Thanksgiving weekend, which is one of the busiest periods of the year at movie theaters. Hairy vs. Harry: 'Tangled' wins weekend box office 2010-12-05T20:01:00Z His right hand’s brisk, zipping phrases made it just as recognizable as the left, if not quite as iconic. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Stoker took brisk daily walks, often to Sandsend or Robin Hood’s Bay. Where Dracula Was Born, and It’s Not Transylvania 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z He writes with brisk self-assurance about each crime, opining on the best and worst of the coverage, offering theories about the case, and teasing out the lasting significance. Bill James, True-Crime Obsessive, on the Genre’s Enduring Importance 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z It’s brisk, but not as assertive as pilsner. When a Summer Day Calls for a Beer 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z The music concludes with not Stravinsky’s usual brisk anticlimax but with a more prolonged suggestion of chaos, a quotation from the trio’s own “Physical Cities.” Dance Review: A New ‘Rite’ by Mark Morris, With the Bad Plus at Ojai North 2013-06-16T21:28:08Z With booths painted in brisk colors, the show looks sharper than most, especially where displays are spacious or highly focused. Art in Review: THE SPRING SHOW 2011-04-28T20:56:41Z Fabio Luisi conducted the orchestra in a performance that seemed more brisk and efficient than imbued with feeling, though the preludes to the first and last acts were lovely. Hong tackles Decker's stark, modern 'Traviata' 2012-04-08T14:01:17Z The answer is the same as how Roth can get them into a brisk novel of two hundred and thirty-three pages: with imagination and, above all, with freedom. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The first one, after glimpses of jazz-rock and Latin rhythms in the opening “Abraxas” and the whimsical, shifty, Phish-y song “Hot Air Balloon,” largely settled into one brisk tempo and stayed there. Music Review: Disco Biscuits at Best Buy Theater 2012-12-27T23:46:47Z In Mr. Khan’s “Technê,” Ms. Guillem takes brisk steps in a crouched position as she circles the perimeter of a spotlight, in the center of which is a silvery wire tree. Review: Sylvie Guillem Says Goodbye, Her Way 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z In contrast to Mr. Glover’s usual sprawl this show is disciplined to a fault, a brisk hour based around a dominant figure of an earlier era, the game-changing saxophonist Charlie Parker. Dance Review: Jason Samuels Smith at Joyce Theater 2012-07-04T21:26:01Z The voice given her is brisk and cold. Poem of the week: St Brenhilda on Sula Sgeir by David Wheatley 2010-12-13T12:26:00Z This group’s performance with Thelonious Monk on “Evidence” is one of the greatest displays of bebop musicians communicating at a highly sophisticated level at extremely brisk tempos. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Scenes cascade one after another with brisk efficiency, which is good because more than half of these dances are predictable, with repetitive movement that becomes tiresome. Ezralow Dance tumbles into the Wallis with crowd-pleasing stage gymnastics 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z The Third, from 1847, is her masterpiece, with a brisk, light Scherzo and a slow movement that unfolds gloriously. Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z My mother's brisk voice rattled into my landline phone. Adventures at the Clown Palace: Stand-up comedy helped me confront my depression and cultural taboos 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z A brisk jig picked on a banjo is the core of “This Is What You Did,” a song about being trapped in repetitive behavior set to intricate Minimalist repetition. Kanye West Dips a Toe in the Moment, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z “Boy” similarly unfolds in a brisk, back-and-forth counterpoint of short scenes, with projected dates. Review: In ‘Boy,’ a Man Deals With Gender Cards He’s Given (Not Born With) 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The brisk heartbeat we had been following so closely in the previous days was gone. 'My mother-in-law called me Walter White': how magic mushrooms rescued me from grief 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z But the movie, directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay by Scott Z. Burns, conducts its business with brisk, breezy irreverence. ‘The Laundromat’ Review: Meryl Streep in a Cycle of Spin 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The movie’s clear and brisk aesthetic matches the strong and facile sentimentality of its message. “Patriots Day,” a Police Procedural for the Age of Surveillance 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Father Christmas then tramped outside, and from the window we saw him in his sleigh, rushing off at a brisk trot to deliver presents in other parts of the village, bells ringing as he went. William Blacker in Romania 2010-12-18T00:06:01Z The ensemble played these pieces with brisker transparency and perhaps more varied colors; Nézet-Séguin’s textures in “Don Carlos,” airier than Levine’s, felt of a piece with the elegant nasality of French. At the Met This Season, Opera Was Icing on the Cake 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z With Mr. Martins’s taxing repetitiveness of steps — it often feels like a countdown — the effect of, say, a jump that springs into the air with a turned-in knee or brisk, windmill arms is hopelessly squandered. From City Ballet, ‘Hear the Dance: Russia’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z This was a brisk Monday afternoon and Ms. Hinkle, 55, had taken over the kitchen of a friend’s immaculate apartment on the Upper West Side to learn how to make chocolate truffles. Marin Hinkle of ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Melts Chocolate 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z “The Cartel,” Don Winslow’s terrifying, hugely populated sequel to “The Power of the Dog,” includes, early on, a brisk tour of the 30-year territory covered by its predecessor. Best audiobooks of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z It’s the brisk fall air that calls for fashionably layered outfits. Welcome to Homecoming! 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z That's the big underlying theme in "Green Lantern," which carries a healthy dose of Spider-Man and Superman morality in its brisk, yet often vapid narrative. 'Green Lantern': Ryan Reynolds lights the way through brisk, vapid narrative 2011-06-16T17:32:04Z The stars of these series are no-nonsense men and women who eliminate dysfunction with brisk efficiency — in other words, the opposite of what most people in Washington seem to do. Critic’s Notebook: Reality TV and the Presidential Cabinet 2012-11-05T19:27:21Z In this brisk, wildly imaginative first novel by Hilary Leichter, the unnamed protagonist is a temp worker who trudges between 23 jobs that tip into the surreal. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Playing mostly medleys, he offered a brisk tour of his signature compositions. Portland Jazz fest wraps Friday-Sunday with Regina Carter and others 2011-02-24T21:50:14Z Their rapport seems likely to maximize the potential for chamberlike sensitivity and a brisk sense of play. Jazz Listings for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z In some passages on Monday, Ms. Mohapatra maintained brisk, soft rhythms with her bare feet, while her entire upper body tipped and bent in slow, steady, lavish arcs. An Odissi Dancer Contains Sublime Multitudes 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z It’s impossible to know if the brisk sales this year were due to the new optimism or, as one distribution veteran suggested, a fear of missing out on the next “Winter’s Bone.” Critic?s Notebook: Turns Out Sundance Thrives on More Than Just Money 2011-01-27T22:58:17Z “Gallants” is a brisk, riotous comedy in which the female dancers are predators and the hapless men are flies looking for love. Paul Taylor Dance Company Comes to Lincoln Center 2012-03-09T18:58:14Z Mr. Vanska opened the concert with a brisk, lithely phrased rendition of Mozart’s short and genial Symphony No. 32, a work more pleasant than stirring. Music Review: Rudolf Buchbinder at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-15T22:36:11Z It moved at a brisk clip, free of the usual stumbles and lulls, and, even better, it flowed almost seamlessly, a next-to-impossible feat for any awards show. Emmycast with Jane Lynch presiding was a winner 2011-09-19T10:54:16Z Each of the following 10 wines is typically brisk and refreshing. From Savoie, White Wines That Refresh Like Mountain Air 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Hong burrows deep into the minutiae of behavior—and does so with a repertory of distinctive stylistic devices, including extended takes of characters sitting side by side, brisk zooms, and puckish distances. The Hong Sang-soo Retrospective Is a Must-See 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Ultimately, however, his innate musicality and elegant phrasing, abetted by Adams’s vigorous accompaniment, delivered a brisk finale to a gratifying afternoon of music. Composer John Adams does double duty at Strathmore with BSO 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The local flower market will be in full bloom, the quirky design boutiques will be doing brisk business, and hipsters from near and far will be crowding Brawn's open brickwork interior. London's Brawn Diner 2011-03-31T15:15:00Z The evening air was brisk, but the skies were mostly clear. Music Review: Garsington Opera’s ‘Olympiade’ by Vivaldi, in England 2012-06-24T22:11:06Z Mr. Sparks favored a clean, flinty tone, combining the brisk harmonic fluency of bebop with the bite and feeling of the blues. Melvin Sparks, Guitarist, Is Dead at 64 2011-03-21T03:37:26Z Few other drummers were as integral to the development of fusion as Mr. Mouzon, who combined volcanic intensity with a brisk attunement to dynamic flow. Alphonse Mouzon, Jazz and Fusion Drummer, Dies at 68 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z The sets and costumes didn’t exactly hang together, but they weren’t a distraction, either, and brisk pacing and a few standout comic performances carried the evening. Outdoor shows: ‘The Tempest,’ ‘Midsummer’ and more 2013-07-16T20:31:29Z Business has been brisk, too, at the Ubink nursery in the Netherlands. Looking sharp! How the cactus became the planet’s most-wanted plant 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z The director, Michael Mayer, at least keeps the careering story line moving along at a brisk pace. Review: A Vonnegut Madman Tangled in Thickets of Dark Satire 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The amiably interfering Dolly, whose role in the play is less dominant than in the musical, is given a pert, appealingly brisk interpretation by Ms. McKenna, a festival mainstay often seen in classical roles. Theater Review: ‘The Matchmaker’ at Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2012-08-26T21:36:37Z “Why Religion?” is, as its subtitle states, a personal story, but it’s also a wide-ranging work of cultural reflection and a brisk tour of the most exciting religion scholarship over the past 40 years. Review | After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z When Charlotte takes a brisk beach walk and spies Sidney emerging from the surf in his naked splendor, it’s a full-on Darcy alert. Review | Jane Austen never finished ‘Sanditon,’ so PBS is happy to fluff it up and draw it out 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Fire pits and firewood are hot items as we look for ways to make patios and decks cozier on brisk nights. How to make the most of your outdoor space as the pandemic drags on into fall and winter 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z A Monday afternoon in St. Louis, gray and brisk, and five people gathered outdoors. Anxious? Yes. But Not About My Son’s Wedding. 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z And gameplay itself is predicated on innate, graceful precision: The pace is brisk when appropriate, leisurely and polite at other times. Cleveland’s field of dreams: What hope means for long-suffering Indians fans 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Glass and his ensemble took the pieces at tempos consistently brisker than Mr. Lubman’s, and the textures of the original are often more tactile and more finely balanced. Brad Lubman Revives Philip Glass?s ?Glassworks? 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z A figure in a windbreaker strides past with a brisk side-to-side gait. He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z |
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