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Fine actors, like fine singers, can be divided into recital artists and operatic rafter ringers. McCowen, 53, with his refined emotional pitch, his dryly witty intelligence and his meticulous craft, is one of the recitalists. He has had showpiece roles-notably the title role in Hadrian VII and the psychiatrist in the original London production of Equus-but even these called more for finesse than fire...
Apart from Hadrian the Seventh, a bitingly satirical novel about a destitute writer who becomes Pope, the books of Frederick Rolfe, alias Baron Corvo, are little read. But his life as self-styled genius and unrepentant poseur continues to tantalize. In the 1930s, two decades after Rolfe's death, A.J.A. Symons made him the subject of a celebrated literary whodunit. The Quest for Corvo. In 1971, Donald Weeks wrote a more conventional biography, Corvo. Miriam Benkovitz, an English professor at Skidmore College, offers a new and exhaustive study. Her style is academic and sometimes awkward, but the Baron radiates...
Breastplate Combat. The Israeli Department of Antiquities rushed a district archaeologist to the kibbutz. He excitedly identified Leventhal's find as part of a statue of Roman Emperor Hadrian, who ruled from A.D. 117 to 138. Leventhal was reminded that according to Israeli law, he should have left his find in place until the official arrived. He responded that if he had not removed it, a passing tractor might well have chopped it to pieces. Besides, there was much more of the statue at the site. The sewer pipe, at first thought to be a leg, proved...
...statue will be displayed in Israel's capital. "There was no way that statue wasn't going to Jerusalem," said Leventhal. In the 2nd century, the Jews who lived there "would have given anything to get their hands on Hadrian," who crushed the revolt led by Patriot Bar Kokhba and savagely persecuted the Jews. Now that contemporary Israelis have him, they are not about to let Hadrian go. As consolation for not letting Leventhal keep his find, Israeli archaeologists have promised him some ancient Jewish coins for his collection...
...companies. On top of that, the Reksten tanker Sir Winston Churchill, which has been idled in the Persian Gulf for months, has received charters for two trips to Singapore. (Other Reksten tankers are named after Roman emperors, busts of whom decorate his palatial home in Bergen; his favorite is Hadrian...