On a brisk afternoon earlier this month, Orlan strode into the Sandra Gering Gallery, at 476 Broome Street, near Wooster Street.

ON a brisk afternoon recently, six actors and a stage manager arrived promptly for auditions at Middle School 201/Star Academy in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx.

One brisk afternoon he sent off a propitiatory package of bright wooden toys for the children and a jeweled torque for Sarima.

It was a brisk, sunshiny Parisian afternoon when the matter really turned up.

It is a welcome fire to pull up to during a brisk afternoon of store-hopping and combat with holiday crowds.

The game got under way at 2:15 p.m. on a brisk afternoon in Ann Arbor.

One brisk afternoon earlier this month, DJ AM browsed at Nort-Recon, a Greenwich Village sneaker emporium.

"Come on up," Mr. Waters said one brisk mid-May afternoon.

Yet, on a brisk afternoon just a day after Christmas, only a solitary shopper was to be found.