Word: telegraphs
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...doing limber and sonorous work, but the show really belongs to Broadwater and Hodgson. They’re always on stage, ceaselessly searching for life’s secrets even though they wouldn’t recognize a secret if it bit them in the codpiece. And both actors telegraph their dumb anxiety with skill: their practiced spontaneity doesn’t seem practiced in the least—every laugh line feels unforced, each note of despair feels natural...
...shoulder. Europe watched troop movements in Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across the Caribbean town ... And between the best and the worst that TV had to offer, imaginative men could pick out the promise of a dream born more than a century ago, when the first crude telegraph suggested that man might some day far outreach the limitations of his speech and hearing. #151;TIME...
...Royal Opera at Covent Garden denied leading soprano DEBORAH VOIGT her signature role of Ariadne in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos because the well-fed diva couldn't fit into the little black dress the casting director had to fill. "I have big hips," Voigt told London's Sunday Telegraph, "and Covent Garden has a problem with them." The opera house said it "deeply regrets" that the weight issue became public...
...Boris Johnson - one of those rumpled British prodigies who manages to be both a journalist and a Conservative Member of Parliament - who best captured the disbelief of the Tory party last week. "It is just flipping unbelievable," Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph. His party's nemesis, he added, "is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness." The escape artist, of course, was Prime Minister Tony Blair, who had managed to slip out of a political bind - make that two of them - that could have forced him from office. On Tuesday...
Black Vs. Board Who has the right to sell Conrad Black's media empire: Lord Black, the majority shareholder, who is under fire for taking allegedly improper commissions, or the board of Hollinger International, the U.S. public firm that actually owns the newspapers, including Britain 's Daily Telegraph and the Chicago Sun-Times? That's the key question following Black's surprise deal last week to sell his holdings to the reclusive Barclay brothers for a bargain $466 million. Infuriated, Hollinger's board has told its investment bank, Lazard, to find other buyers. "The board believes it has the authority...