Word: agrippina
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...gave it unforgettable polish and shine. Now Ava Gardner, 62, is bringing her glow to the phosphors of the TV screen for the first time. In three weeks Gardner will star on NBC's A.D., a Christians vs. lions mini-series in which she plays Agrippina, Nero's manipulative mother. Last week brought the start of her seven-episode stint on Knots Landing, in which she portrays the wealthy Ruth Sumner, another manipulative mother and one of those prime-time soap characters like J.R. and Alexis who manage to drub everyone the wrong way. "It's a whole...
...Royal Academy. In fact, West was by temperament an ideal official artist: studious, methodical, competent, a bovine draftsman. But his neoclassical work, done under the first impact of Naples and Rome, is another matter: the small sketch for West's first classical subject, The Landing of Agrippina at Brundisium (1766), is a grave and stony image. West's intense curiosity about classical prototypes leaves no doubt as to the impact of Europe on his receptive mind...
...Nero invited his mother Agrippina to Baiae. On her way home she narrowly escaped death when her ship, obviously sabotaged, sank from under her; after she got home, Nero-egged on by his mistress Poppaea, who disliked the lady-used the surer method of having Agrippina clubbed and stabbed to death...
Though he still had his stout Republican purpose he saw that Rome was not yet ripe for it. To outsiders it looked as if Messalina's betrayal had turned him to the way of all Emperors: he married Agrippina, the wickedest woman in Rome, let her groom her son Nero for the throne, was apparently content to sit back and let the downward rush of history take its course. But there was method in his cynicism. Hoping that Rome would eventually tire of tyranny if it became too outrageous, he played King Log to the Roman frog-pond...
...usually, two pairs of wings attached to the thorax. Smallest insects are 1/100 in. long, scarcely discernible to the human eye. There is a chunky beetle (Macrodontia cervicovnis) 6 in. long, and some stick-insects reach 13-in. in length. Insect with the greatest wingspread is the moth Erebus agrippina, spread 11 in. But a fossil dragon fly had a 2-ft. spread...