Word: cassius
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...eldest sons duel for the presidency and petty time-servers scrabble for scraps in Congress, Bill Clinton was huge, a towering figure across our political landscape. Like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, he "doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus," and his defeated enemies could only join voice with Cassius in saying that "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings...
...have yourself a motion picture with quite a bit going against it. That said, I immensely enjoyed Little Nicky, a heartwarming story about the devil (Harvey Keitel, a bit out of place in this classless romp) and his three sons: ne'er-do-wells Adrian (Rhys Ifans) and Cassius (Tom Lister) and wimpy, innocent Nicky (Sandler). This isn't your father's hell; Satan rules justly over the condemned souls, respecting that a natural balance must exist between good and evil. However, when Adrain and Cassius make a break for the surface, the natural order of things is disrupted...
...that's not nearly so strange as Tosches' technique: a gumbo of archival minutiae, back-alley hearsay, self-serving memory and rank speculation, all underscored with periodic outbursts of prose so embarrassingly purple it could shame a grape. Most provocative theory: that Liston's two fights with the young Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali were fixed by the Nation of Islam. Most convincing characterization: the drowning-in-slime, Mob-controlled world of big-time boxing circa 1960. Most vexing question: why anyone would commit a sentence like this one, typical in every way but its brevity: "What remained was epilogue and epitaph...
Sooner or later, in big things or small, everybody betrays everybody--not necessarily out of malice, but because loyalty runs counter to what one laughingly calls normal human behavior. "Into what danger would you lead me, Cassius?" asks Brutus, who is, in fact, an honorable man yet is easily seduced to treason by an envious one. I can still hear George McGovern's avowal of fealty to his running mate, Thomas Eagleton, in the 1972 presidential campaign, after it was revealed that Eagleton had undergone electric-shock therapy. "I'm behind him 1,000%," said McGovern, a few days before...
...spot someone who is likely to be disloyal: 1) anyone who feels underappreciated and makes a lot of noise about it. If Caesar had flattered Cassius once in a while, he'd be alive today. 2) anyone who feels inadequate in his or her position, high or low, and fears exposure. 3) anyone who writes a newspaper column. 4) anyone who wants to. 5) anyone who spends a good deal of time reading travel brochures or hanging out in a Mercedes-Benz showroom. 6) anyone whose name contains a vowel. 7) anyone else...