Word: caesarism
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...Scotland” recounts the terror of Idi Amin’s dictatorship. Amin attempts to keep the crown certain by eliminating any threats, but this, paradoxically, only increases his constituents’ desire to change leaders. Shakespeare understood this well, as readers of “Julius Caesar,” “Richard II,” and “Richard III” can attest. “All the King’s Men” shows the rise and fall of a charismatic populist unable to handle the mechanisms of real power...
...Safeway grocery in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood, many of the bagged produce shelves were empty Saturday. Anna Cairns said she had to settle for bags of iceberg green lettuce and Caesar salad, instead of her normal salad mix, which contained spinach...
...you’re into healthier food you can check out Boloco (71 Mt. Auburn Street) for some tasty wraps, including my favorite: the chicken Caesar wrap. For a lighter meal, try the steak and cheese snack wraps. Boloco also offers a variety of smoothies to bring refreshment to those (few) warm months in Cambridge...
...collection of jokes; they were skits, theater pieces that got laughs from the asides as much as the punch lines. And each bit was populated with two, three, many characters. It was like a classic sketch on Your Show of Shows, except that Lenny played all the parts: Sid Caesar's, Carl Reiner's, Howie Morris' and Imogene Coca's. He wasn't a great mimic ? all the voices had his nasal Long Island timbre ? but he was a confident actor. And since each routine tended to evolve as he performed it, Lenny was less a sick comic than...
...Spillane was more famous, more notorious, than any of those writers; for a time, he was the Elvis of fiction. His blockbuster status, along with his sex-and-violence plots and the muscular, almost steroidal, power of his imagery, made him ripe for satire. Sid Caesar played a Hammer character on Your Show of Shows. Al Feldstein led off the first issue of Panic, the sibling of Mad comic book, with a story called "Me, the Verdict," an acute burlesque of Spillane tropes. The highest compliment was paid by Fred Astaire, who in 1953's The Band Wagon devoted...