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...oldest monarchies on earth was pronounced dead last week. In ceremonies before a joint session of the Cambodian Parliament, the President of Cambodia's National Assembly declared: "I, In Tam, officially proclaim the Khmer republic. Our country is indivisible." The fabled Khmer empire-begun in 802, conqueror of much of Southeast Asia a millennium ago, creator of the glories of Angkor Wat-was no more. In the newly named Place de la République near the former Royal Palace, Premier Lon Nol raised the banner of the new republic: a square blue flag with a smaller red square...
After three weeks of hard work as an apprentice mountain-climbing guide at Washington's Mount Rainier, Joseph Kennedy III, 17, oldest son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, admitted, "I still get tired." The new hand is described by his boss Lou Whittaker, brother of Everest Conqueror Jim Whittaker, as "bigger than average" (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) but with "good coordination." Last week young Joe had a chance to show just how good he is by easily maintaining the brisk pace set by his mother Ethel as they breezed halfway up the slopes of Mount Rainier...
Grinding out his two or three epics a year, Wayne feinted a jab with Big Jim McLain, the story of a ham-fisted HUAC investigator. It failed because Wayne was as uneasy in mufti as he was playing Genghis Khan in The Conqueror. In that film, Mongolia became westernized when Wayne announced to Tartar Woman Susan...
Part of his franchise was to see his master in the most majestic terms, and Bonaparte Visiting the Pest-Ridden of Jaffa, showing the conqueror touching the sores of a hapless victim of the plague, was clearly intended to portray Napoleon as the modern hero sans pareil. But the picture is redeemed by the sharply observed bodies of the stricken. David would probably have laid the scene in a bare hospital room, and Gros considered just that. But feeling the need tor a more theatrical setting for his hero, he conceived of a Moorish courtyard looking out on the ramparts...
...negative capability", by which he meant the playwright's ability to avoid putting his own personality and opinions into the mouths of his characters. But this "negative capability" was least in evidence in Henry V, in which Shakespeare set out to limn the unlimited glory of a national hero-conqueror, a model monarch. Yet Kahn has tried to make the play into a sardonic antiwar tract...