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...Tonys, meanwhile, can't pay tribute to the real Best Actress currently on Broadway - Laura Linney, in Sight Unseen, a Manhattan Theatre Club revival that arrived just a couple of weeks too late for Tony consideration. Who's doing their scheduling? Donald Margulies' 1992 play concerns a world-famous painter who pays a visit to an ex-girlfriend (Linney) now living in the English boondocks with her archeologist husband. Margulies' work (Dinner With Friends, Collected Stories) has always struck me as slick but rather pat. This play, however, has all sorts of intriguing tendrils, as relationships and backstory are unraveled...
...lake with boats for hire. The hillside is covered with beautiful things: the main staircase and a Pelican fountain have graceful statues of biblical figures. Nearby is the Stairway of Virtues (with figures of Faith, Hope and Charity); fountains representing the senses of taste, smell, hearing and sight; and the equestrian statue of Longuinhos, which represents a man who had a daughter he couldn't marry off. The statue has become an object of superstition - it is believed that if a girl walks around the statue three times, she will be married. Could be worth...
...quite a sight. There was the oldest man in the D-day invasion, 56year-old Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (son of the former President) barking orders at Utah Beach. Although he had a heart condition, Roosevelt insisted that his presence and leadership would help boost troop morale. With German artillery exploding all around him, he paraded up and down Utah Beach, ordering U.S. tanks to secure the flanks and U.S. engineers to breach eight 50-yd. lanes through beach obstacles. He refused to wear a helmet, preferring to don a knit wool hat. "We have landed in the wrong...
...mistake had landed the troops at a practically unguarded stretch of the beach. The Americans who landed there sustained relatively few casualties. The British and Canadian forces who landed at Gold and Juno beaches fought their way ashore, according to plan, and were soon followed by tanks, the mere sight of which swept most of the German resistance away. The fighting was harder at Sword Beach, where German defenders stiffened against the specter of the Allies' capturing the nearby city of Caen. The hardest fighting of all raged throughout the day on the fifth beach, Omaha. It was a relatively...
...Sight SUDAN The Islamic northern government and southern Christian and animist rebels agreed to a peace deal at talks in Kenya to end to 21 years of civil war. The deal does not cover the conflict in the western region of Darfur...