Humour is forged out of crisp words and witty music working as one.
It sometimes puzzled her female attendants, in Seidensticker's crisp words, "that she should still be such a child.
"I am a New Yorker," the woman, Robin Kornhaber, 54, told me as if those five crisp words explained everything.
It opens with some crisp words from the mistress of ceremonies, typed out in a large font on a page with lots of white space: "I received an e-mail telling me it was over.
It helps that, last month, Rogers told the world the truth about himself in 408 crisp words which, on his website, confirmed that, "Life is simple when your secret is gone.
In the crisp words of Robert Morris, director of IBM's Almaden Research Center: "There is no less than a crisis today in three areas (of systems): cost, availability, and user experience". This "crisis of complexity" seems to be creating a Computer-Science-wide push towards building self-managing systems.
Thank goodness (again!) for your crisp, clean word pictures".
And so, even while under pressure from a banking crisis in Hong Kong, the pair led the bank's senior executives in fashioning a long-term, highly ambitious vision, articulated in a crisp 104-word statement of strategic intent.
We talked to Phillip about the difficult task of editing Quentin Crisp's words after his passing and his spin on our LGBTQ issues.
A nice crisp, efficient-sounding word.
