Word: brief
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...After choosing which form of cancer (currently breast, lung, colon, or prostate) to evaluate, users submit a brief survey on diet, medical and family history. The Web site then returns an estimate of risk relative to others of the same age and gender...
...majority of Primal Scream runners, however, tend to keep their clothes on when in the presence of others. Their brief stint with nudity is motivated by a stress-induced need to break the rules. As students we inhabit a space that is clearly defined by administrators, parents and professors. We compete for grades--arbitrary symbols of our intellectual achievement. And the fact that we were admitted implies that we are fairly adept at playing by the rules. But even (or especially?) the most strait-laced member of the debate club can benefit from stripping off (quite literally) their inhibitions...
...After a brief stop at McCain's campaign headquarters in Manchester, New Hampshire, the four headed home...
...together. Max Von Sydow does a marvelous turn as decrepit defense attorney Nels Gudmundsson, as do Shepard and Ako as the parents of the young lovers. Also, Max Wright (as a doddering coroner) and Celia Weston (as the righteously bigoted mother of the deceased) deserve special mention for their brief appearances on the witness stand...
...grounded performances. Cary McClelland makes for a delightfully indignant, buxom Lady Bracknell, whose voice breaks just a little too much, presumably for the sake of emphasis. But it is the director Fred Hood in his cameos as the two butlers, Lane and Merriman, who steals the show with his brief moments on stage...