Word: ets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Julius Caesar is the first Shakespeare play that they make you read in high school, but that's not necessarily a reason to dislike it. There are some reasons for disliking the movie version that's coming to the Welles on Sunday. Marlon Brando, who stars as Et Tu Brute, just don't make a good Roman no way. The rest of the cast is starchy and lifeless, wringing the play dry of all its verve. The Welles Shakespeare co-feature, A Midsummer Night's Dream, is really enjoyable...
Thru Sat.: White Heat, 4:15, 7:55 and Each Dawn I Die, 6:15, 9:55 and The Dope Show [Reefer Madness Et al.], midnight...
...eight Justices sitting in the case of United States v. Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, et al. appeared from their chambers and sat behind the massive mahogany bench. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger shuffled his papers for a long moment and then began to read the decision constituting the sharp est judicial blow to a President since the court rejected Harry Truman's attempt to seize the nation's steel mills...
...only witnesses to this sort of crime are the participants themselves. That the Watergate story produced serious consideration of impeachment at all is due largely to the incredible existence of the tapes; without them, it would be Nixon, Mitchell, Haldeman, et al. against a few hardly-impeccable types like John Dean...
...with a reassuring Scandinavian air of wholesomeness, he came across as the ideal public man. He had a family to match. In 1925 he married a widow of Swedish descent, Nina Palmquist Meyers, adopted her son and then sired five children of his own. An inveterate joiner (Masons, Elks, et al.) with a loose, easy "How are yuh, good to see yuh" handshaking style, he was a Republican whose personal constituency crossed party lines. In 1946 he won both the G.O.P. and Democratic gubernatorial primaries...