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...last half of the second act, when it slowly dawns on the main doctor treating him that George is recovering faster than he has been letting on. It is a tribute to Hawthorne's acting ability that the audience guesses this just far enough ahead of the doctor to marvel at the subtlety of Bennett's language. This revelation that there are levels to his madness makes one of George's remarks all the more affecting. When someone comments that the King seems more like himself, George replies...
Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus JohnKenneth Galbraith called the debate "a marvel ofincoherence...
Most of all, it was time to enjoy the game of basketball at its best. It was time to live in Boston and marvel at the awesome ability of the larger-than-life athletes...
Watch a giant takeover brawl unfold before your eyes! Marvel at the clash of colossal egos! Gasp at the gyrating stock prices! Not since the 1980s has Wall Street so unabashedly savored a fight as it did the one that broke out last week for filmmaker Paramount Communications. With a bid from Viacom Inc. valued at $7.5 billion already on the table, QVC shopping-network chairman Barry Diller unveiled a staggering $9.5 billion counteroffer. Paramount stockholders could almost be heard sighing at the thought of their potential profits. In a counterassault with personal overtones, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone fired back...
...real story of the evening came minutes later, when Perlman and Zukerman quieted the crowd by resuming their places center stage. As the reduced (for the Mozart) Israel Philharmonic sat by silently, the soloists commenced a reading of an unbilled marvel of virtuosity and musicality, the Handel Passacaglia arranged for violin and viola by Halvorsen...