Word: cleopatras
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...raised piano-top, behind which they are hiding, expresses its disapproval by solidly falling on the heads of the two lovers. At the sound of the crash, an irate father rushes upon the scene and sternly reprimands his daughter for her licentious behaviour. Meanwhile, our fallen Caesar forsakes his Cleopatra and silently slinks out of the room...
...Actium, in 31 B. C., while spellbound land forces stopped fighting to watch, Octavian's Roman fleet struck the Eastern fleet of Antony and Cleopatra, until Antony's soldiers saw their leader abandon the fight, sail off with the Egyptian queen...
...sinister and violent career has always given historians the creeps. But no historian has shown so shrewd an insight into her character as Laura Riding. She poses a daring speculation: Was Olympias perhaps a noble woman embittered and corrupted by her coarsely disappointing husband? Likewise the career of Cleopatra becomes a seductive peg on which to hang the thesis that women are pretty much what men make them...
...Blue," says the Barbarian Britannus in Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra, "is the color worn by all Britons of good standing. In war we stain our bodies blue; so that though our enemies may strip us of our clothes and our lives, they cannot strip us of our respectability." Though Britons long since ceased painting themselves for battle, they were blue all over last week about their position on the Far Eastern Front of the War of Nerves. The Japanese, having stripped Far Eastern Britons of clothes and Face (Oriental for respectability), moved troops into position along the border...
...Davis, "Dark Victory" is no defeat, although it is a rather dark victory. After all, watching some sleezy little minx whooping it up with only ten months to live is not exactly riotous entertainment, and when mixed with some funereal acting by George Brent and a new triple-threat Cleopatra named Geraldine Fitzgerald breaking into tears at the slightest provocation, the total effect becomes rather depressing. In fact those who may go for relaxation after a three-hour Sanskrit exam may become a little embittered about the whole thing. But those who want to see acting in its very finest...