But Eisen keeps things percolating, briskly calling the action, loosening up Davis, staying in the moment, enjoying himself.
Similarly, he deals squarely but briskly with the debilitating bouts of anxiety and other psychological problems Phillips faced early in his professional life, issues that called for multiple hospitalizations and treatments of electroshock therapy.
He calls for coffee and dispenses with the photographer briskly: he poses for two minutes before saying, "Right, that's enough," and walking out of the shot.
Like most of the latest electric-vehicle prototypes, the Kangoo Be Bop ZE, as it is called, drives briskly and quietly.
Its face cream, called La Crème, was selling briskly for $450 an ounce.
They probably could have played for another 85 minutes, but on a signal from Mr. Grant, they produced a final, briskly strummed cathartic chord and settled in for what he called the "afterglow party".
At Macy's, an alligator bracelet - called a "wrist belt" - is selling briskly for $80, as is the "padlock watch," a timepiece dangling from an alligator band, at $45. Fur collars, usually unobtrusive, appear on some of the coats, including the Ilie Wacs coat selling at Saks for $700 in black or red, each with a black Persian notched collar.
Michael Petroni has written a screenplay that moves briskly and is narrated by Roger Allam, a character called Death.
Other times Jason steers the story a bit too briskly, skimming its surface: "Scared, confused and alone, I called my mom".
The track ends at a village called Tingba, set in a valley of rice paddies cut through by a briskly flowing river.
