Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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City Planner Julius Caesar brought some order by decreeing that carts should move only at night; those overtaken by dawn had to remain parked until sunset. He also tried to straighten out confusion in the Forum by moving the Rostra (named for the rostra, ships' prows, captured at Actium), where orators held forth, to one end of the Forum. He began the 110-yd.-long Basilica Julia, alongside the Temple of Castor and Pollux (see cut), to serve as an exchange, law court and meeting place. Caesar's successors carried on with ever-increasing grandiloquence and display, creating...
...Comedian Sid Caesar announced last week that he had patched up two old breaks: 1) he telephoned Imogene Coca, his original mate on Your Show of Shows, and in a tear-choked chat won her consent to their TV reunion; 2) he called NBC, which he left in a huff in May because the network could find no sponsors for the costly ($110,000 a week), rating-laggard Caesar's Hour, TV's best comedy show. Subdued, after almost two months of contemplating a new season without him, Caesar offered to render unto NBC a "reasonably" priced half...
...would be done under the bill. And likewise, I suspect that the A.D.A., the N.A.A.C.P.'s Gold Dust Twin, has at least guilty knowledge." Nor were these all the plotters. Heading the list: Attorney General Herbert Brownell, "of whom the bill would make a 20th century American Caesar...
...Preminger; United Artists) performs, with the greatest of ease, the feat of turning Shaw into pshaw. Given what is probably the master's masterpiece, Producer-Director Otto Preminger (The Man with the Golden Arm) has concluded what is certainly the feeblest of the five films-Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles and the Lion are the others-that have been made from Shaw's plays...
Perhaps even Caesar's great talent could not make tolerable his screaming, shouting, yelling all his lines. Television comes into a living room. Remember...