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...asset too precious to be defiled by lies and half-truths." He told the jury: "Your verdict will do much to determine whether he'll go down in history as a great man, a great soldier, a savior of his country or as a kind of monster, another Herod." Sharon's approval of the decision to send the Phalangists into the camps, he said, was made while "bullets were flying and guys were dying." Said Gould: "He's not making the kind of decisions you make as an editor up there in Rockefeller Center, with all the fancy furniture...
...16th century on Roman ruins that are 1,400 years older. The Israelis have completed the wall's restoration and built a safe walkway on its ramparts. Strollers can now amble around most of the Old City. The walk is interrupted by the Temple Mount, where Herod's Temple was eventually replaced by the Dome of the Rock, which is under Muslim administration. The wall is surrounded by a national park that is studded with archaeological finds and historic sites. Each of the wall's seven gates will be given special architectural treatment. So far, only Damascus...
...gaps. The dreams of Pharaoh's servants are here, interpreted by Joseph, but they represent one-half of the biblical citations. Where is Jacob's ladder or Matthew's account of the wise men "warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod"? Brook's accent is more literary than historical, but even here he falters. Lewis Carroll's dream books of Alice are justly represented, but James Joyce's monumental portrait of the unconscious, Finnegans Wake, is accorded two lines. Joseph Heller (Catch-22) is indulgently granted six entries...
...departs crucified on a Daliesque golden triangle that is slowly projected toward the audience by a hidden cherrypicker lift. In Jesus' company come a sweetly sensuous, cheek-kissing Mary Magdalene, a quintet of Jewish high priests who call for a "final solution" to their Jesus problem, and King Herod-a queen in full drag. There is also the traitor Judas, played by a black whose considerable talent and limitless energy sometimes upstage Jesus. Clad in silver jockey shorts, Judas returns from the dead on a butterfly-winged acrobatic bar to ask the doomed Jesus "Why you let the things...
...cooking, all tomato paste and burnt garlic, it was not meant for an educated palate. But the remarkable thing about this show is how, time and again, it surprises one with some unexpected dramatic subtlety. The expression on Salome's face in Preti's The Feast of Herod, for instance, is worthy of Rembrandt in its shadowed play of emotion...