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Laboring under the burden of a broken toe, Bellucci nevertheless is eloquent and convincing, especially in the beautifully acted love scenes with Masha. Chris Clemenson takes the awkward character of Tusenbach and fills it out with sympathy and skill. Tusenbach's paeans to labor can easily turn into sermonizing and his devotion to Irina into sickening self-abasement, but Clemenson doesn't self-dramatize the role. He transcends the limiting qualities of the part as Chekhov wrote it to create to subtle portrait of human suffering, weltschmerz...
...blue for slightly warmer air and red for melting snow. The more casual cross-country skier usually chooses a waxless ski that comes grooved with fish-scale, diamond or chevron patterns to provide both grip and glide. A light flexible boot is attached to the ski by a single toe-binding. A cross-country package complete with touring skis, boots and poles can be had for around $100, considerably less than the $300-to-$500 price tag on a similar downhill ensemble...
...willing to sing his praises more loudly and obsequiously than even the most seasoned of ward-heelers. It was she who helped direct the late Mayor's infamous infiltration of dissident groups. When Daley was alive, she was a terror; her acid-tongued remarks stung any who didn't toe the party line. When Daley died, Byrne, who had made few friends in the Machine aside from the boss, lost it all. Bilandic finally fired her as sales commissioner after she made a desperate publicity-grab by accusing him of "greasing the skids" for a taxi fare increase...
...junior varsity basketball team made Northeastern's J.V. toe the line in its own gym last night, defeating the junior Huskies, 77-72. The win put the Crimson's record at 4-1 this season...
...illegally each year is that most existing fences have been knocked down, shot full of holes or simply hauled away. Indeed, the new barriers might have gone up unnoticed had not the builders boasted that "anyone barefoot" seeking to climb over the razor-sharp wall would "leave his toe permanently embedded...