Given the task of picking 10 of the best from a concise career that never saw the group release a track that was less than pretty good (the debut album's bleary, Beatles-lite Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up comes closest to being a stinker), it's tempting to pick 45 33 from 2006 on a technicality.
"The Bomb" is at its dramatic and concise best in recreating the life of Oppenheimer in its first act, "Origins," but striking visual elements like the French orgy and the zombielike figures powdered in dust in the Sept. 11 scenes attest to the potent theatricality of WOW.
In Torquay, the 39 boats in the Fiaro Solitaire fleet were able to relax with a crewed race round Torbay but Sunday sees the start of leg four to Dieppe back in solo mode with Yann Eliès leading overall with Jack Bouttell in GAC Concise best of the eight British, lying 11 with Alan Roberts (Magma Structures), ninth into Torquay, two places behind him and Sam Matson (Chatham) 12th.
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It's that time of year again when we reflect on the past 12 months and attempt to sum it up into one concise "best of" list.
Perhaps the New York Times' Michael Kimmelman said it best, in the concise lexicon of 140 characters, when he tweeted on election day, "Hope post-election, we can finally take big steps as a city, region nation to deal w costs, plans re: climate change.
The word concise best describes the overall text, for the breath of the text is large but the 78 chapters are covered in only 752 pages.
The best presentations are clear, concise, reasonably jargon free and tell the story of your research.
The Arabs have a saying, "the best of speech is concise and precise".
