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...restless. Clinton stuck with a 19-page snoozer of a nominating speech through signals from the chairman to stop, through a flashing red light and through index fingers drawn across the throat, the broadcast symbol for "Cut it short." His humor returned the next day: "It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half...
...finest revival on any London stage is an Uncle Vanya (translated by Michael Frayn, directed by Michael Blakemore) that does justice to both Chekhov's hearty humor and his compassionate sadness at the waste of frustrated lives. It perceives the play's dominant tone not as lethargy but as furious, tragically misdirected energy. As Vanya, Michael Gambon demonstrates anew why he has come to be regarded as perhaps Britain's foremost stage actor. Alternately raging and lapsing into bathos, bubbling with kindness as he worsens the lives of those he most means to help, he embodies the tragedy...
...Roger Rees as the defector, who is also the secret father of Kendal's schoolboy son. The spellbound joy and agony on his face as he listens mutely on the telephone to the voice of the boy he can never claim as his, can scarcely even see, is the finest moment of performance in London. It makes this sere season well worth the trip...
After graduating in 1985 with a degree in computer science, Sudduth gave up crew and took up single sculls. Considered the finest sculler in the world, he is favored to bring a gold medal home from Seoul. Sudduth beat three-time gold medalist Pertti Karpinnen of Finland in a regatta in Italy earlier this year...
...plains of the Midwest, botanists are finding plenty of volunteers to help them reclaim the prairies and replant the wildflowers that belong there. In a formidable climate where there are hailstorms in June and frost in August, juvenile offenders at a Wyoming detention center have some of the finest gardens around...