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...right Surkov reflected Darwinism doesn't explain it. To create all this mysterious existence in only ten thousand million years--the merest blink of an eye. The spontaneous creation of order like the improvisatore's "Cleopatra" No, I can't believe it. It may have happened by impulse, but it's not random...
Pusshkin's tale involves a Russian poet, Charsky, who befriends an Italian improvisatore. The Italian tells yet another story, "Cleopatra and Her Lovers," in which Cleopatra agrees to take as a lover for one night my man who is willing to die the next morning. The runic twist at the end of the Cleopatra story is the essence of Thomas central theme--the link between creativity, consciousness and death. "Sex, of course," Thomas once wrote, "includes all creativity, and death includes its own vanquishing...
Paul Volcker's rumpled suits and inexpensive Antonio y Cleopatra cigars have been Washington landmarks since 1979, when President Carter named him Federal Reserve Board chairman and gave him an urgent mandate to fight inflation. Volcker, 55, has carried that out with a zeal that has made him conspicuous in a town that bends easily before political winds. Says Jake Garn, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee: "Sometimes he seems to be the only person in the country capable of sticking to an economic policy." More than a few observers call Volcker the second most powerful man in Washington...
...rights, this play, like Antony and Cleopatra, should have a double title-something like Macbeth and Wife or Two on the Heath-for Lady Macbeth is fully as important as her husband. Hamlet can get along with a second-rate Ophelia, but if the actress who plays Lady Macbeth is inadequate, or just barely good, the entire play suffers accordingly. That, in brief, is what is wrong with Nicol Williamson's production, which opened at Manhattan's Circle in the Square last week. Andrea Weber may be a gifted young actress, but she is definitely...
...instead, a dignified role as royal undertaker, removing himself and Alexander's body to safe and cultivated Egypt. There, the hero's spirit lives on in the city of Alexandria, Ptolemy writes a history of his times and founds a dynasty that lasts until the death of Cleopatra...