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Karen Tumulty, who last week temporarily left her position covering the White House to return to her old beat in the halls of Congress, observed that "we have spent so many months trying to eke out details of the President's relationship with Monica, and now, finally, the fire hose is open." Jay Branegan, who has been covering the White House since last November, described last Friday as "the day the information drought suddenly ended. After months of saying virtually nothing, the President's lawyer, David Kendall, held a full-blown press conference, taking questions and giving full answers...
...good director knows that if you're going to eke out some drama, you've got to zoom in on the details. So go back to spring training, when every sports reporter is flying into Jupiter, Fla., to ask McGwire if he's going to break the record--as if he were going to break out some pro-wrestling rant like "Maris? Maris was a whiny schoolgirl compared to me. Boo-ya." Or look at the opening of the season, when the SportsCenter announcers started to calculate his home-run pace. Sports Illustrated put him on the cover--even before...
Barrios triumphed over a four-candidate field which in addition to Benzan and Thompson also included David Hoicka, a Central Square attorney. In the past, similarly crowded fields had helped Thompson eke out a plurality of votes...
...moments of genuine pathos. For instance: the scene in Dumb and Dumber in which, having briefly come to the end of his rope, Carrey's character stares out a window and says, "You know what I'm sick and tired of? I'm sick and tired of having to eke my way through life. I'm sick and tired of being a nobody. I'm sick and tired of having nobody." Sharing the scene with a bowl haircut and a chipped tooth, Carrey nevertheless evinces a real sense of despair. Director Peter Farrelly says the scene took seven or eight...
...This focus on theroaring sex drives of the usually staid Britishgives the audience a voyeuristic thrill inwatching the play. In addition, the number ofphallic jokes that abound in this play are enoughalone to give Freud reason for existence. Withfrenzied movements of calculated theatrical flair,the cast manages to eke out a even a few moreexaggerated and oversexualized actions than themultitude that the script itself provides. Inparticular, Burke, as Seargant Match, does ahilariously comical performance while describinghis efforts to recover that body part of WinstonChurchill which had been importunely stolen.Greaves and Smith are equally proficient inmilking every melodramatic funny bone...