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...Manhattan. The largest expeditionary force in British history seizes Staten Island and prepares to invade the mainland to crush General George Washington's ragtag Continentals -and with them the Revolution. Near Wall Street, frenzied New Yorkers tear down George III's statue. Delaware Congressional Delegate Rodney Caesar rides 80 miles through thunderstorms to Philadelphia to help make the colonies' Declaration of Independence unanimous...
...important. That impasse and Napoleon's suspicion that the woman is the spy are the foundation of dramatic tension. As the play evolves, Napoleon's suspicion is confirmed and he and the woman play psychological games with each other--she playing the wily, flattering Cassius to his Caesar; he acting the child, the tyrant, and the lover to get back his dispatches and then, later to teach his crafty deceiver a few of the finer tricks of deceit...
...Politics is not celebrated for the manufacture of good news-except in campaign promises. Yet the nation has successfully weathered its severest constitutional crisis without producing oligarchy or chaos. The three-way division of powers, which has provoked more funeral orations than Julius Caesar, still functions. If the recent election showed evidence of apathy, it also provided examples of vigor. Harvard Sociologist Thomas Pettigrew sees "serious good news" in the massive gains that blacks made in Congress and state legislatures. Connecticut's Ella Grasso, the first woman to become Governor without benefit of her husband's coattails...
George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark, Sid Caesar and Myrna Loy can also be found in the vicinity.) It is to be wished that everyone in the film would go away - violently - and that catastrophe movies would molder with them. Unfortunately, they are not going to. In addition to such current examples as The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (see below) and Juggernaut (TIME, Oct. 21), Earthquake and The Towering Inferno will be unleashed in the next couple of months. Somehow, the knowledge that the genre is not yet played out makes Airport 1975 seem even worse...
When the young Roman Republic found itself dominating the world, it became clear that its traditional political system, moral code and institutions were not working properly. Julius Caesar understood this and wanted to act accordingly. That was his genius and his tragedy. Brutus was an honorable man, trying blindly to preserve the virtues of yesterday. When his dagger ended Caesar's vision, inadequate concepts and institutions were partly preserved, contributing to Rome's decadence and fall...