Word: caesar
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...game, it would seem, is inexhaustible. Why did Julius Caesar love oysters? Who was Teddy Roosevelt really aiming at when he plugged a Tasmanian tiger? But it is a bit like reconstructing a mastodon from a toenail or a sliver of bone...
Robin and the 7 Hoods is less ex citing than Little Caesar, less convincing than The Roaring Twenties, and less tuneful than Guys and Dolls. Proceeding on the reckless assumption that an old movie made over is better than no movie at all, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. pretend to be vintage Chicago hipsters who rob the rich and give to the poor-though the poor slobs who can't share the fun without buying a ticket may wonder whether it isn't the other way around. The actors snap, their fingers at the plot...
Sandals, of course, are nothing new. Alexander the Great wouldn't have been caught dead without them, and Julius Caesar wasn't. But only in recent A.D. days have they become something more than what to wear in the shower, at the beach, at home alone, or on a tour through alien lands whence the news will not get back. Gradually, as America discovered its special fashion nook, a knack for the sporting look, sandals began to be everywhere, and everywhere pretty much proper...
...average European by no means swallows every far-out theory, but their own intrigue-steeped national histories make it easy for millions to doubt that Oswald did it alone. In Italy, where Julius Caesar got his and where Machiavelli elevated plotting to respectability, the only question is when the conspirators will be unmasked. Among Frenchmen, who have long had a penchant for ideological crime, the rumors went back to last year's arrest of Yale Professor Frederick Barghoorn in the Soviet Union on spy charges. According to this account, the CIA had solemnly denied to Kennedy that Barghoorn...
...half-brother Gallus (whom Vidal paints as almost a parody of the Roman voluptuary) had not been executed for misgovernment, leaving the Emperor Constantius and Julian as the last male survivors of the imperial line. With Gaul threatened by the Alamanni, Constantius reluctantly bestowed on Julian the title of Caesar and gave him both the government of Gaul and the hand of his sister Helena...