crash course

“Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective” will offer a crash course in a critically vaunted musician who has a passionate cult following — including many Hollywood stars — but who has always been a little hard to pin down.

So then he was like in a crash course.

When I took on this project, they put me through a two-week crash course," he continues. "I learned that quite quickly because I obviously have a grasp of the language.

Federal Reserve officials are fiercely protective of their separation from politics, but the presidential election is putting the institution on a crash course with partisan wrangling.

Before filming began, she took a ballet crash course with the choreographer Belinda Murphy, who taught Weir the rudiments of dancing in pointe shoes and shaped the extended ballet sequence that opens the film.