Though brief, it has a sharp dramatic edge and great poignancy.

The outward effect can be as dramatic as a wild thrashing movement ( tonic-clonic seizure ) or as mild as a brief loss of awareness ( absence seizure ).

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

" One of Johnson's aides, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., has countered that " from 1963 when Lyndon Johnson took office until 1970 as the impact of his Great Society programs were felt, the portion of Americans living below the poverty line dropped from 22. 2 percent to 12. 6 percent, the most dramatic decline over such a brief period in this century.

The area's generally stable weather pattern is broken by brief, but often intense, afternoon downpours and dramatic thunderstorms common during the so-called monsoon of July and August.

Musicians who contributed to the album included guitarists David Gilmour ( Pink Floyd ) and Carlos Alomar, pianist Herbie Hancock, Sting ( who provided backing vocals on " The Promise "), Grace Jones ( who provided the brief but dramatic spoken-word interlude on " Election Day "), bass player Mark Egan of the Pat Metheny Group ( whose very distinctive fretless sound can be recognised in " The Promise ", " El Diablo " and " Lady Ice ") and David Van Tieghem, a percussionist from New York.

The coda is very dramatic and includes a brief reminder of the Grave before ending with a swift cadence.

They often included brief dramatic interludes and more serious subject matter.

... most dramatic departure from what other pianists were then playing was his approach to the underlying pulse: he would charge against the metre of the piece being played, accent off-beats, introduce sudden stops and brief silences.

Early in Madelyne and Scott's marriage, they ( along with Alpha Flight and the rest of the X-Men ) would have a brief but dramatic encounter with the Norse trickster-god Loki.

New Mathematics or New Math was a brief, dramatic change in the way mathematics was taught in American grade schools, and to a lesser extent in European countries, during the 1960s.

After a trade to Philadelphia involving, among others, his teammate Curt Flood ( which led to Flood's dramatic lawsuit over baseball's reserve clause ) before the 1970 season, McCarver played for the Phillies, Expos, Red Sox, and another brief stint with the Cardinals ( he was replaced on the roster by the rookie Keith Hernandez ).

This is most likely to be achieved if a claim is articulated and proven with credible evidence — in a brief commercial, some kind of dramatic demonstration.

In his book and television series Cosmos, Carl Sagan presents a brief, dramatic account of the battle in chapter / episode 2 ; " One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue ".

The firing rate increase can be quite dramatic, from virtually zero outside the field to as much as 100 Hz ( for brief periods ) in the middle of the place field.

After the opponent is defeated, a brief moment is allowed for the player to perform a fatality that finishes the adversary in a more dramatic fashion ; these were performed in a similar manner to the special moves.

Following a brief stint as ballet master for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Andersen moved to Phoenix, Arizona, attracted not only by the dramatic scenery but, he says, by the " crystal clear " sunlight that is ideal for painting, one of his enduring passions.

Their relationships consist of: 1 ) brief, sordid and impersonal meetings or 2 ) longer arrangements punctuated by dramatic tirades, discords, jealousies and frequent infidelity.

The brief season of the tenore contraltino was over and there had begun the new era of the Romantic tenor, whether it was called lyric or dramatic, elegiac or spinto, robusto or di grazia, which is still enduring till present times.

) After a brief and dramatic introduction, the main theme is revealed: two melodies that together form a question-and-answer pair.

The way the scene changes from Bart and Skinner talking in Skinner's office to them searching through the lockers is a reference to the same style of scene change used in the 1960s Batman television series, in which a close-up of Batman's face with dramatic music in the background is shown for a brief moment before the scene changes.

The Museum attempts to present in brief the history of the institution after almost two centuries of incessant activity ( which coincides with some of the most dramatic periods of modern history ).

Some of these have explored and offered accounts of Christie's disappearance in 1926, including the 1979 film Agatha ( with Vanessa Redgrave, where she sneaks away to plan revenge against her husband ) and the Doctor Who episode " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ( with Fenella Woolgar, her disappearance being the result of her suffering a temporary breakdown due to a brief psychic link being formed between her and an alien ).

There is little story in the game except for a brief text prelude located under " Help " in the Main Menu, and a few cutscenes after the completion of an episode.

Arden had a very brief guest role in a 1955 I Love Lucy episode entitled " L. A. at Last " in which she played herself.

The brief allusion to the Judgment in the Iliad ( 24. 25 – 30 ) shows that the episode initiating all the subsequent action was already familiar to its audience ; a fuller version was told in the Cypria, a lost work of the Epic Cycle, of which only fragments ( and a reliable summary ) remain.

As a child she had a very brief appearance in The Munsters as a transformed Eddie Munster after Eddie drank the rest of Grandpa's Texas Playgirl Potion in season 1 episode 33 entitled Lily Munster, Girl Model.

" Abdul also made a brief guest appearance in season 3 episode 1 of the British television Comedy-Drama Hotel Babylon, which aired in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2008.

Pasiphaë appeared in Virgil's Eclogue VI ( 45 – 60 ), in Silenus ' list of suitable mythological subjects, on which Virgil lingers in such detail that he gives the sixteen-line episode the weight of a brief inset myth.

Little backstory is given regarding the early life of Martok, except for a brief history sketched by himself in the Deep Space Nine episode " Once More Unto the Breach ".

The 22 episodes of TAS were spread out over two brief seasons, with copious reruns of each episode.

For a brief while it was also implied that Skuld had a crush on Keiichi ; the second special episode of the first TV series ( where she's grown up for a day ) explored this angle by placing Skuld and Keiichi in situations where they appear as a couple.

For example, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Redemption ," when the Klingon Empire experienced a brief civil war, Captain Jean-Luc Picard refused Chancellor Gowron's request of aid, even though he was the legitimate ruler of the Empire, and even though the Romulans were suspected of supplying weapons to the opposing side, as an imperial civil war was deemed an internal conflict.

Llewelyn made a brief appearance in ' Little Mother ' an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Bacchylides's Ode 5 includes, in addition to a brief reference to the victory itself, a long mythical episode on a related theme, and a gnomic or philosophical reflection – elements that occur also in Pindar's ode and that seem typical of the victory ode genre.

In the episode " The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons ", Apu enjoys a brief period as Springfield's leading ladies ' man after being spontaneously drawn into a bachelor auction.

In a very brief appearance in the season 2 episode " Bart's Dog Gets an F ", Troy was voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

The network has run blocks of classic game shows on Saturday nights, and for the first few months of 2006 programmed back-to-back episodes of Match Game in a block billed as That ' 70s Hour ( a pun on That ' 70s Show ), which showed the original production slate before each episode as well as Match Game trivia and brief clips of an interview with host Gene Rayburn produced shortly before his death.

The brief episode of the weakened National Security Adviser was over.

The year 1933 is suggested by a brief shot of an automobile registration, and it is divulged in episode 18 that the date is in the spring of 1933.

The Aquarium makes an extremely brief cameo in Ghost Adventures during the Point Sur Lighthouse episode, while the crew was leaving the bay on a boat to the waters off the coast of the lighthouse

During the tenth season of the sitcom Frasier, in the episode " Lilith Needs a Favor ", Spiner made two brief cameos as a fellow airline passenger with Frasier Crane's ex-wife, Lilith Sternin.

A brief reference to Pike occurs in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Tears of the Prophets ;" Captain Benjamin Sisko receives the " Christopher Pike Medal of Valor " for his actions during the Dominion War.

At the end of the episode, usually after a brief endorsement by Jack Webb for the sponsor's product, announcer Hal Gibney would relate the fate of the suspect, who was usually tried in " Department 187 of the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the City and County of Los Angeles ", convicted of a crime and sent ( in most episodes ) to " the State Penitentiary, San Quentin California " or " examined by psychiatrists appointed by the court ", judged mentally incompetent and " committed to a state mental hospital for an indefinite period ".

It shares some features with the diagnostic category of a " brief psychotic episode ", although a distinct pattern of behaviours has been noted: