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...testing eye-hand coordination. Reaching with the left hand for not-quite-clean plates; right for dirty, so the left can pick up the stainless stell. A quick move to get glasses, cups, and deep-dished bowls to their separate dishwasher to get them cleaner; dump the detergent, slam the doors, turn the knobs; run to the sink and scrub the pot Gregory just left...
...series goes the full seven, with the Red Sox winning the World Championship for the first time since 1918 on a Rich Gedman grand slam in the bottom of the ninth. Luis Aponte is the winner; 15,667 fans go wild...
...boom that the tax cut is supposed to bring about. Says Oklahoma Democrat Jim Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee: "My fear is that the program now put in place by the Administration is the equivalent of stepping hard on the gas at the same time as you slam on the brakes. The result will sound spectacular-until either the brakes fail or the engine blows. It is a gamble of titanic proportions...
...only participant. He passes time offstage with his pet tarantula and his friend Michelle, who giggles about the day she and Darby discovered a corpse in their backyard. At night Darby wanders through rock halls as the more engaged members of the audience pogo to the music and slam into each other with the force of bumper cars. Darby doesn't dance much; he simply staggers forward, backward, attentive to some inner music, like the dying of his brain cells. Within the year, the rest of him will be dead, of overdose and ennui...
...while telling his version of an entertainer's life and self-inflicted hard times. As the performance progresses, and Hank periodically darts offstage for a "glass of milk," he becomes more surly, maudlin, fatalistic. His life is crumbling; he knows it and, trouper to the end, makes a slam-bang show out of it. So does Carl Chase, who plays Williams. He does not look like Hank; he does not sound much like him. But through craft or luck or force of will, he becomes Williams. The competition is tough, but Chase is giving what may be the finest...