After two short sketch films and two short art-house features ( the black and white Stereo and the colour Crimes of the Future ) Cronenberg went into partnership with Ivan Reitman.

Most orchestrators often work from a draft ( sketch ), or short score, that is, a score written on limited number of independent musical staves.

* Clymer, R. Swinburne ( 1916 ) The Rose Cross order: a short sketch of the history of the Rose Cross order in America, together with a sketch of the life of Dr. P. B. Randolph, the founder of the order Philosophical Publishing Company, Allentown, Pennsylvania, OCLC 6671066

In 1974, Dennis Main Wilson ( producer for the UK television show Till Death Us Do Part ) produced a short sketch series for Feldman on the BBC entitled Marty Back Together Again — a reference to reports about the star's health.

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called " sketches ", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

The two pages in question consisted of the short sketch " Roderick O ' Conor ", concerning the historic last king of Ireland cleaning up after guests by drinking the dregs of their dirty glasses.

Created as a short sketch in Idle's UK television comedy series Rutland Weekend Television, the Rutles gained fame after being the focus of the 1978 mockumentary television film, All You Need Is Cash ( The Rutles ).

As a chapbook, it contains several small extracts of various different projects, including two short stories from Ficlets, an ACME comedy sketch, and a Criminal Minds production diary.

On Saturday, October 20, 1962 the award of Nobel prizes to John Kendrew and Max Perutz, and to Francis Crick, James D. Watson, and Maurice Wilkins was ' satirised ' in a short sketch with the Nobel Prizes being referred to as ' The Alfred Nobel Peace Pools '; in this sketch Watson was called " Little J. D.

Thatcher performed a short sketch with Eddington and Hawthorne on 20 January 1984 at a ceremony where the writers were presented with an award from Mary Whitehouse's NVLA, an event commemorated on the cover of the satirical magazine Private Eye.

As a tribute to the Dead Parrot sketch, a short that features Cartman attempting to return a dead Kenny to a shop run by Kyle aired during a 1999 BBC television special commemorating the 30th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

A short sketch of Jennings in the 1920s shows that it was the center of a thriving community.

He also published Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch, and a short biography of Darwin.

A 1979 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Hour featured Van Dyke and Moore reprising their roles as the Petries in a short sketch presented as the brainstorming of Van Dyke ( guest-starring as himself ) and the writers of Mary McKinnon's ( Moore ) variety series, who noted McKinnon's resemblance to " the gal who played Laura Petrie ".

A life of Georg Fabricius was published in 1839 by D. C. W. Baumgarten-Crusius, who in 1845 also issued an edition of Fabricius's Epistolae ad W Meurerum et alios aequales, with a short sketch De Vita Ge.

C. Alexander's patterns, for instance, each consist of a short name, a rating ( up to two '*' symbols ), a sensitizing picture, the context description, the problem statement, a longer part of text with examples and explanations, a solution statement, a sketch and further references.

Describing its impact on the physiological, psychological and social activities of people is key to expanding our understanding ; however " the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery " and " the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants " as well as " the science and art of cultivating such plants " will suffice to sketch the outline of a short description.

On Saturday 20 October 1962 the award of Nobel prizes to John Kendrew and Max Perutz, and to Crick, Watson, and Wilkins was satirised in a short sketch in the BBC TV programme That Was The Week That Was with the Nobel Prizes being referred to as ' The Alfred Nobel Peace Pools.

In 1963, Frinton's Dinner for One was recorded by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk ( NDR ) German television station, and bizarrely, watching the unsubtitled English language sketch on television subsequently has become a German New Year's Eve tradition, with the short seeing multiple repeats every year from 1972 onwards.

This piece consisted of a series of piano sketches, alternating with scenes and costumed recitations, including a two-person " satirical musical sketch ", really a short comic opera, called Cups and Saucers, which they then toured.

Another example is found in a short sketch in an episode of the cartoon serial " Garfield And Friends ", where Garfield appeared in front of a map of the USA with an empty space where Wyoming normally exists.

As a tribute to the Dead Parrot sketch, a short that features Kyle as the owner of a shop to where Cartman attempts to return a dead Kenny aired during a 1999 BBC television special commemorating the 30th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

Besides showing no inclination, apparently, to absent himself from his native region even for short periods, and in addition writing a shelf of books set in the region, he has handled in those books an astonishingly complete list of matters which have been important in the South during the past hundred years.

Our surplus from foreign business transactions has in recent years fallen substantially short of the expenditures we make abroad to maintain our military establishments overseas, to finance private investment, and to provide assistance to the less developed nations.

In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.

Long-lived carbon-14 from the fusion process would cause four million embryonic, neonatal or childhood deaths and stillbirths over the next 20 generations, and between 200,000 and one million human beings now living would have their lives cut short by radiation-produced diseases such as leukemia.

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

In the relatively short time since these early observations, Venus has been observed at additional wave lengths in the range from 0.8 to 10.2 cm, and Jupiter has been observed over the wave-length range from 3.03 to 68 Aj.

Second, the upper portion permits comparison of maturity levels of an equal number of growth centers from the long, short, and round bones of the five regions.

We expected, in short, that most of the world would make itself over in our image and that it would be relatively simple, from such a position, to deal with the localized aberrations of the Soviet Union ''.

I took a short swallow from it myself and handed it to him.

When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.

As a short, possibly not the best method, I looked up `` Word '' in the Concordance and noted that the Bible claims from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 to be God's personal message to man.

And then I remembered a few years before after their return from a short trip to Rome I had heard her boast, over and over again, `` On the boat people liked me for myself ''.

In most salamanders, the limbs are short and more or less the same length and project at right angles from the body.

One Nepōhualtzintzin ( 91 ) represented the number of days that a season of the year lasts, two Nepōhualtzitzin ( 182 ) is the number of days of the corn's cycle, from its sowing to its harvest, three Nepōhualtzintzin ( 273 ) is the number of days of a baby's gestation, and four Nepōhualtzintzin ( 364 ) completed a cycle and approximate a year ( 1 days short ).

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

Fear is defined as short lived, present focused, geared towards a specific threat, and facilitating escape from threat ; while anxiety is defined as long acting, future focused, broadly focused towards a diffuse threat, and promoting caution while approaching a potential threat.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

* 1936 Love from a Stranger ( dramatised by Frank Vosper from the short story Philomel Cottage )

* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.