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...book expertly evokes Welles' wildly inventive productions of the mid-'30s: a "voodoo" Macbeth with the Negro Unit of the WPA's Federal Theater; a Julius Caesar set in Fascist Italy; a violent farce, Horse Eats Hat, with 74 actors; Marc Blitzstein's folk opera The Cradle Will Rock, which the WPA shut down and Welles reopened the same night, marching his cast and audience from the original Broadway house to another, empty one for the triumphant outlaw premiere. There were riots outside Welles' shows--to get in. His work was denounced by the Communist Party and the Hearst papers...
...Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Mark Antony reflects on the numbing cruelties of civil war, a "domestic fury" so dreadful "that mothers shall but smile when they behold/Their infants quartered.../All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds." Last week, it seemed, the pitilessness that has devoured so much of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 was at last choking itself toward extinction. Strife that has fed on vengeful mythologies and minor cultural differences was succumbing, among many southern Slavs, to a universality of victimhood. Around the western Balkans, sorry droves of refugees could almost have exchanged identities as they toted...
Dining Services paid $10,000 to the national fast-food chicken chain Chick-fil-A for a license to sell its trademark sandwich and its other products, such as Caesar salad, fresh squeezed lemonade and chicken nuggets, Berry said...
What the Bomb can also be called these days is the most explosive comeback story in skiing. At 28, following an unsatisfactory showing in last year's Winter Olympics--he took home only a silver in the slalom--the hard-driving, hard-playing Tomba is once again the Caesar of the Snows, the toast of Italy and many places beyond. His thrilling come-from-behind win at Adelboden in Switzerland marked his third giant-slalom triumph of the season and his 10th win overall in the current World Cup series. He is so far ahead of the competition that...
...from crepe stations to Caesar salad to pad thai, Berry seems to have claimed the standard Harvard motto of "diversity" and applied...