Word: caesarism
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...play-Merdre! as Jarry spelled it-discovered obscenity as a lisping child star and launched her on her modern stage career. That was 1896; Jarry was 23. His egg-shaped Père Ubu of monstrous honesty, the grotesque Dr. Faustroll with his science of 'Pataphysics and his Caesar-Antichrist are the collective grandparents of the theaters of cruelty and the absurd. As Jarry lay dying at 34-of an acute brain inflammation caused by tuberculosis and aggravated by drink-he was obsessed by that image of death's anarchic joke, a skull and crossbones with its toothy...
General de Gaulle staged the climax of his triumphant re-entry into Paris in 1944 at the Etoile because the site has been a traditional center for national celebrations since the end of the 18th century. In fact, its historical significance dates from Roman times. In 56 B.C., Caesar's lieutenant Labienus defeated Camulogene, king of Lutece (ancient Paris), in a battle on that spot. By 1730 it was already called the Etoile (star) because it was a junction of roads on a hilltop. Some regarded it as no more than a "field of mud or dust, rough enough...
...Love, love me do. When suddenly he begins to shrink. Say from 18 feet down to about three. The screen shatters into a half-dozen other, simultaneous, images. Up left, an exterior shot of Las Vegas' International Hotel. By day, a pretty dull affair, not to be compared with Caesar's or the Sands. But by night! ELVIS. In mile-high neon. As if the very stars had fallen from the desert sky, the guts wrenched out of the moon; all so that some mad manipulator of electric gases could spell out ELVIS-COMIN AUGUST...
...Chamberlain still considers himself about ten years away "from really learning my trade." He has just finished two film parts, as Tchaikovsky in a romanticized biography and as Octavius in a remake of Julius Caesar. From his homes in London and Los Angeles (he is unmarried), Chamberlain is currently angling for stage work. If nothing else, he thinks he has at last kicked Kildare. "The umbilical cord that once bound us," he declares...
...Jews in Russia are willing to rend unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but they are not willing to give unto Caesar that which is God's," said Morgenthau, who is professor of Political Science at the City University of New York...