Then, in a display of the business-as-usual briskness that carried him through his yearlong crisis, he met with his foreign policy team to begin preparing for an overnight trip to Mexico on Sunday.
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A furiously colorful picture with swirling, dreamlike photography ( by Emmanuel Lubezki ) and obsessively accurate period detail, " A Little Princess " also moves with uncommon briskness, clocking in at just under 100 minutes.
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In the briskness of the fall air, it's time to get out the meats : that slow cooking, fill-the-house-with-smells groceries that warm the heart as well as the tummy.
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His sense of urgency and do-it-by-the-book briskness appeared lost on the Iraqi fighters, who used their rest breaks in the morning sunshine to trade quips about the Americans, not all of them friendly.
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You can sense the marvelously involving, scene-setting briskness that he would later use in the opening of " Into the Woods " in the introductory number here, " The Advantage of Floating in the Middle of the Sea ."
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He went on in a less flattering vein : " Brightness, briskness illuminate the pages, but there are no shadows, no subtlety, not much perception of character, no pathos or insight into the soul or human suffering.
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But his sense of urgency and do-it-by-the-book briskness appeared lost on the Iraqi fighters, who used their rest breaks in the morning sunshine to trade quips about the Americans, not all of them friendly.
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Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, a Canadian nationalist who grew up speaking French in a Quebec river town, dares to cite an American president, Truman, as his political hero, in part for the briskness of Truman's decision-making process.
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The style of the show is an overblown mixture of cynicism and cuteness, reflected in Clarke's lurid storybook sets, Judith Dolan's comic-book costumes and Patricia Birch's acrobatic choreography, which this time around lacks precision and briskness.
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These performances, by the pianist Oleg Malov and the St . Petersburg Soloists, are not as polished as Hat Art's, and the sound is not nearly as lustrous, but there is an engaging briskness and even playfulness in the musicians'approach.
