Word: cleopatras
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...Wales blushingly silent in Glasgow last week. Diana was there to accept an honorary fellowship from the city's Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. "For five centuries the perceptive heads of the Spencer family have married women of surpassing beauty, and the daughters they begat relegated Cleopatra to eclipse," gushed Professor Stanley Alstead during his presentation speech. After the ceremony, an admiring young Glaswegian, appropriately named Edward Romeo, begged permission to "kiss your hand, Ma'am." His passion released, he murmured glassy-eyed, "She is more beautiful than Cleopatra...
...renovated building with the largest sound stage outside Hollywood was named in her honor. "I feel sensational and really a little sentimental," said Colbert, who looked both. Indeed, it was hard to say which of her selves was lovelier as she delightedly encountered a cardboard cutout from her film Cleopatra, which she made at 29. Now 78, she is still working. This week she starts rehearsals in London with Rex Harrison, 76, for a West End revival of the 1923 comedy Aren...
...bury a dead character, Peter Sellars '80 dug up the floor of a tiny room in the basement of Adams House, where he staged Beckett's "Happy Days." Sellars is also remembered for a production of "Antony and Cleopatra" on a raft in the Adams House Swimming pool...
...rolling!" the director shouted. Whatever he said echoed around the neighborhood on the crew's walkie-talkies. Workers stopped digging; gawkers stopped talking; the make-up man stopped waving a fan over Anderson as if she were Cleopatra. Someone drew chalk lines around the actors' feet to mark their positions...
...portrait of one of the most honest and complicated female characters in recent fiction. In Ararat, by contrast, the reader has to contend with many different voices, a new one at each level of storytelling. Furthermore, these voices are generally those of unpleasant men or stereotypical, one-dimensional women Cleopatra, it turns out, is the most complicated female character in the entire work...