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...actors frequently shout to be heard, which serves to exaggerate the difference in age between them and their roles. Ralph Zito turns the twisted, self-centered Serebriakov into a buoyant, strapping cartoon villain. When Vanya charges him with ruining his life in their third-act confrontation, Zito rushes across the platforms to the other side of the house, breathing heavily and staring over the audience like a character in melodrama who can't face the awful truth. But the horror of Serebriakov is that he is too full of himself to begin to understand what Vanya is talking about. Instead...
...keyed former financial expert had just handed a devastating defeat to Prime Minister Michael N. Manley, the buoyant leader of the People's National Party. In a reversal of the landslide Manley won in the past two elections, the final count might give the Labor Party 51 of the 60 seats in the country's Parliament, a gain of 38 over the 1976 election. The People's Party was reduced from 47 to a mere 9. With that, the island nation had taken a sharp turn in its political course: away from Manley's pro-Cuban...
...morning, when he was sober. He wrote his diary at night when he was drunk." On the evidence of the 840 letters collected here, Waugh sometimes tippled while he corresponded, but the contrast between this book and his Diaries (published in 1977) is as vivid as that between a buoyant raconteur and a mean lush. Here is Waugh effusively thanking Harold Acton for sending his latest book: "A work of that kind, so rich and learned, .must be studied with proper reverence." He told his diary something different: Acton's book was "unreadable...
Board members split sharply over the timing of the economy's eventual return to good health. There was also disagreement regarding just how buoyant or fitful the recovery would be. Most members forecast that the economy would either continue to decline or stagnate until the end of the year-this is in sharp disagreement with Commerce Department Chief Economist Courtenay Slater, who two weeks ago declared that the recession had ended in July or August. A minority of TIME'S economists anticipated that a modest drop would continue into early...
...good dreaming about U-turns," she shouted at the Labor M.P.s who had been demanding a radical reversal of her economic policies. "Far from demoralizing the country, we are doing what the country elected us to do, and this government will have the guts to see it through." The buoyant show of indomitability was occasioned last week by a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons, the second called by the opposition in five months. The outcome was never really in question. With the Tories' 43-seat majority, plus a handful of Ulster Unionists, Thatcher was able...