When it comes to evaluating general officer performance, the two are not dazzled by the press-briefing version of events.
It was a brief version of our perpetual housing crisis.
The brief version is that the options for treating prostate cancer include three forms of radiation.
(The alto saxophonist Bill Easley came closest, on a too-brief version of "T.G.T.T").
The brief version might sound something like this: The federal government has outgrown its ability to pay for itself.
The brief version of the story is that the government, which helped mitigate the recession, has been a significant drag on growth for more than a year now.
A brief version of General Ryder's comments were incorporated into the report on abuses in Abu Ghraib prison last February by Maj.
The tour de force is Simon's chapter on the treason trial of Aaron Burr, the best brief version I have read.
It was to Bernardo Soares that Pessoa ascribed his Book of Disquiet, first made available in English in a briefer version by Richard Zenith in 1991.
Family Films, on Saturday, features lighter fare, like Leat Klingman's "Carmen" (2008), an extremely brief version of Bizet, and several bits from Sesame Workshop, like "SpiderMonster, the Musical" (2011), a spoof of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark".
A jazz singer of unstinting vivacity, Ms. Freelon draws on some of the sturdier pillars of her craft — Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, even Lena Horne, to whom she dedicated a brief version of "Stormy Weather" — without resorting to outright emulation.
