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...brilliant comedy, admittedly, but each a far, far better thing than Abe Burrows has done this time around in substantially reworking Garden from Barillet and Gredy, the original French authors of all three plays. Here are four different sex skits pasted together, each starring Carol Channing and Sid Caesar. In one, Caesar is a house painter and Channing a monied, molting society lovebird who is having the apartment redone for her cynical young lover. Guess who gets to use the bed? In another skit Caesar is a gamy garment-district mogul who sweeps Channing off the dance floor at Roseland...
This pair of samples indicates the prevailing tone of the evening, which is selfconsciously "naughty" and as torpidly old-fashioned as a smirk. Channing and Caesar are the consolation prizes, and they could use a little consoling themselves-say a sudden revival of Hello, Dolly! or something with the truly masterly zaniness of Caesar's salad days...
...surprising for a churchman whose whole life was devoted to the unshakable conviction that Latin, far from being dead, was a "living and vital language for all cultivated persons." Over the years, Bacci brought out four editions of a Latin dictionary, including terms that did not exist in Caesar's day, and himself coined such gems as gummis salivaria (chewing gum) and barbara sahatio (the twist...
...Papa Doc has apparently had intimations of mortality. In his Independence Day speech early this month, he observed that Caesar Augustus was only 19 when he inherited the Roman Empire. "I will give power to youth when the time comes," said Duvalier, "because the future belongs to youth." By youth Papa Doc meant his only son, Jean-Claude, 19, a moonfaced, 200-lb. lad known as Baskethead to his classmates. A 1963 kidnap attempt on Jean-Claude so enraged his father that at least 100 persons, including 65 army officers, were executed. The legend persists that, at 13, the spoiled...
...Senate. "I am fed up with the procrastination, the indecision, the inability to get the job done on the other side of the Capitol," House Republican Leader Gerald Ford told his colleagues. Missouri Republican Durward Hall used harsher words: "The American people have been set upon, as was Caesar of ancient Rome, by supposedly friendly Senators...