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...scenic design of The Seagull is blessedly free of pretension. Set designer Antony McDonald places the first act in a series of wide open spaces, both exterior and interior. This sense of liberty resonates in a scene in which the half-naked Estabrook cavorts in shallow water...
Early on Oct. 6, photographer Davis and I, accompanied by a translator from the Foreign Ministry press center, set off from Hanoi on a seven-hour, 150- mile drive through the scenic karst valleys of Son La province to Phu Yen district. Before the last two-hour leg of the journey, the driver warned that we would not be able to stop until we reached the hamlet of Phu Yen because even a brief halt in daylight might leave us prey to the bandits who operate in the area...
...slithering past the law since the days of Congressman Charles Poston. Known as the "Father of Arizona" for his campaign for territorial status, Poston set a bad example for later generations of politicians when he set out for Washington to claim his congressional seat in 1864 but took a scenic detour -- through Panama -- at a cost to taxpayers...
...save money and fuel and manpower, the Pearl Harbor authorities had recently canceled weekend reconnaissance flights. But they had acquired some new radar equipment, though the National Park Service strongly objected to towers being installed on scenic mountaintops...
...underline his evenhandedness, Bush last week briefly resumed his role as the leader who crushed the Arab world's largest army. He interrupted a scenic walk through the Grand Canyon to tell reporters that the U.S. had alerted warplanes that they might have to return to Saudi Arabia to pressure Saddam Hussein into complying with the gulf war cease-fire...