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Ayckbourn has placed the action on three sets that fill the RSC's small stage and position the actors mere feet, if not inches, from the audience as they portray over-the-top derangement. All are good, and the two nuttiest -- Gary Whitaker, as the youth who comes to believe he is an alien, and Brenda Blethyn, as the neglected wife who regresses into toddlerhood -- rip open psychic dungeons to unleash dragons of despair...
...great. And Apu will say, "There are only two phrases you have to know, I assure you: 'That is the full-size box of corn flakes' and 'Shoot if you must, I don't know the combination to the safe.' " ' I think he writes comedy the way they portray Mozart writing music in Amadeus. It just spills out of him, fully formed...
When TIME covers earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters, we portray ordinary people at a particularly harrowing point in their lives. This week's cover photo, for example, shows California nurse Hyun Sook Lee at a moment of the most tragic grief, learning of the death of her son in the Northridge earthquake. Rarely, though, do we follow up on such people's stories. What becomes of them months or years later, long after the immediate crisis has subsided...
...trip, a senior aide reported Clinton to be "vexed" and "frustrated." In Brussels, Prague, Kiev and Moscow he was winning favorable press coverage for his handling of foreign policy. But at every stop he kept hearing that awful word Whitewater to his obvious dismay. Presidential aides had fought to portray criticisms of Whitewater and related deals as partisan Republican sniping. But now nine Democratic Senators had joined the clamor for a special counsel to take an independent look...
...White House -- and getting snagged on Arkansas roots is now a national spectacle. Every transaction during their political sojourn in Little Rock will become a measure of their character, of their ability to organize, administer and decide. In the First Lady's case, the stories that emerge portray a woman maneuvering through a world of messy connections, clumsy finances and ethical minefields...