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What it lacks in spectacle it makes up for in intimacy and brevity (about one hour).

"Jesse Owens," directed by Laurens Grant and written by the frequent PBS collaborator Stanley Nelson ("Freedom Riders"), is a smooth and handsome production that suffers from its brevity: about 52 minutes, after credits and promos.

At its best the film has some of the unadorned, incisive strangeness of the minimalist American fiction of the 1980's, but it also shows the limitations of minimalism, and feels, even in its relative brevity, about half an hour too long.

For example, Twitter is about brevity, while Instagram is much more about creating visual impact.

Reinforcing that point about brevity: On Tuesday, the press briefing lasted about 15 minutes.

"It's not a dumbing-down of the language or the use of colloquialisms," says Stratford, nor about brevity or a loss of poetry, but about making the language less high-brow.

Later, I worked for a year in advertising, as a copywriter, and learned something about brevity".

The PowerPoint chapter manages, somehow, to be very moving and only works, she says, because the medium underlines a structural point she was trying to make about brevity: specifically, the awkward, silence-imbued relationship between a boy and his father.

I'm fanatical about brevity.

With its 140 character limit, Twitter is all about brevity.

YouTube announced a new ad format today that's all about brevity.