Word: seward
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...ever seen Alaska's panoramic peaks, its rushing rivers and teeming wildlife would argue with that description. Alaska is great in beauty, in majesty and in sheer size. If laid atop the lower 48 states, it would stretch from Florida to California. The territory that was once called Seward's Folly is rich almost beyond comprehension in oil, coal, timber and fish. Alaska is truly America's last frontier, a place of wonder that is virtually unspoiled and a priceless treasure that is largely unspent...
...whole, the acting is phlegmatic. Jeremy C. Miller plays Dr. Seward, the manager of a small sanitorium outside New York City. But Miller hardly commands the authority one would expect in such a role. He occassionally stumbles on lines, and since he acts as if he were asleep, it is a wonder that he does not stumble across the stage as well...
RENFIELD might make an interesting case for Abigail van Helsing, the doctor called in by Dr. Seward to solve his sister's mysterious illness. Of course, she immediately realizes that the illness is caused by a vampire...
Tanya Selvaratnam makes a fine assistant to Dr. Seward, but given her accent and appearance, director Jed Weintrob probably should have changed her character's name to something slightly less Anglo-Saxon than Wesley...
There was romance, too, on the broad, open fields of Virginia. The story of flight was re-enacted with models -- correct down to the fabric, wires and rivets -- of those old, often ungainly aircraft that took the first pioneers aloft. Larry Kruse, a dean of Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kans., launched his replica of a 1911 Voisin into the fitful afternoon breezes. An almost perfect twelve grams of craftsmanship with a 13-in. wingspan, the plane is powered by a rubber-band motor turned 2,300 times. The Voisin bucked and churned, its tiny pusher propeller sending...