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Duvall has an abysmal singing voice--gargling and off-key--but his speaking voice, his presence, is insistently musical.
William Jefferson Clinton's "abysmal record on liberty," as Weisberg calls it, is, indeed, a fatal twist of irony, incredible and troubling.
Broadway's version of the Academy Awards, threatened with cancellation by CBS after years of abysmal ratings, rebounds with viewers--drawing record Nielsens--but not with critics.
The cover story revisits a favorite Standard topic: China's abysmal human-rights record.
However, no account of the Northwest's soaked misery surpasses that of the great American explorer and abysmal speller William Clark, who recorded his observations nearly 200 years ago.