Word: final
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...popular music, so John Gielgud was to theater: The Voice. It could draw a word out into a long cello note or quaver like the lead fiddle in the pit of a Victorian melodrama. It made Shakespeare's verse immediately comprehensible and ethereal: perfectly analyzed, beautifully felt. Declaiming the final scene from King Lear in his solo Shakespeare show The Ages of Man, Sir John sounded like a noble basset. "Howl, howl, howl, howl!" The tone was mournful, then (an octave higher) deranged, then weirdly ecstatic and finally strangulated, stilled...
...John's classical diction might seem as fuddy a theater relic as tights and gaslights. Yet on the night after his death, on a West End stage, Edie Falco and her American co-stars in the gritty play Side Man paused at the end to pay tribute, leading a final standing ovation, to a man whose love of the theater was so artful and ardent...
...Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resume talks aimed at completing a final, comprehensive peace agreement, hanging over them is a pledge made by Palestinian leader YASSER ARAFAT to declare a Palestinian state by year's end, with or without Israel's acquiescence. During his interview with TIME (see WORLD), Prime Minister EHUD BARAK revealed a position not unlike that of his hard-line predecessor BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. Barak says if Arafat unilaterally declares a fully sovereign state in all the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel would respond by unilaterally annexing Palestinian territories Israel wants to keep for itself, a move long...
...that Clinton get a chance to make the case for liberalization to the Russian public," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "That didn't happen because his speech was never seen by the Russian people. There was an obvious chill in the air between Clinton and Putin at their final media conference - Clinton looked frustrated, exhausted and exasperated, and there was no warmth from Putin. The days of the cheery Boris-and-Bill show are clearly over...
Journalists write the first rough draft of history. Historians write the final draft, presumably. What is the difference between the two versions...