Word: cleopatras
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...husband who wants to run off to pursue delusions of grandeur. None of this bitter material prevents the funny parts from being really funny. Nor does it seem to depress the audience. As Bunny says, "I haven't seen so many people so excited since the premiere of Cleopatra. It's that...
...Commonwealth Ave., Kenmore Square, Cambridge. 536-2750. Velcro Peasants, Cleopatra Jones and Shine on March 5. The Fighting Cocks, The Turbulent Daughters, Snidley Whiplash and The Furies on March 6. The Incredible Casuals, Harmony Rockets and Three Pound Universe Sunspots on March...
...CLEOPATRA BLACK...
Hence, argued the founding father of Afrocentrist history, the late Senegalese writer Cheikh Anta Diop, whatever is Egyptian is African, part of the lost black achievement; Imhotep, the genius who invented the pyramid as a monumental form in the 3rd millennium B.C., was black, and so were Euclid and Cleopatra in Alexandria 28 dynasties later. Blacks in Egypt invented hieroglyphics, and monumental stone sculpture, and the pillared temple, and the cult of the Pharaonic sun king. The habit of European and American historians of treating the ancient Egyptians as other than black is a racist plot to conceal the achievements...
...most ambitious schedules in the world, must try to fill 4,000 seats at 210 performances a season. And for the most part, its forays into premieres have been failures. Met veterans still wince at the memory of the disastrous premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, written to inaugurate the company's new quarters at Lincoln Center...