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...that he discovered. But last week Anthropologist Paul W. Barker of Maine's Gorham State Teachers College vindicated Columbus. In northern Haiti, he reported, he dug up two golden pendants just like those described by Columbus. Barker may even have found them in the village where dwelt the lass with the nose plug...
Shakespeare's Cleopatra is, as Charmian says, "a lass unparallel'd," but Miss Hepburn's is not, alas, unparallel'd. This Mt. Everest of female roles has foiled many a seasoned Shakespearean within recent memory, including Vivien Leigh. Eugenie Leontovich, Mary Newcombe, Dorothy Green, Katharine Cornell, Janet Achurch, Peggy Ashcroft, and Edith Evans (though the last two came close). The celebrated willing suspension of disbelief does not extend to accepting Miss Hepburn as a sensuous femme fatale who ages from 28 to 38. Only once is she amorously convincing, when she gradually moves in toward Antony ("Eternity...
...Lass That Made...
...Auld Hornie, nae sooner is the lad in Oban than he spies a paughty lass wi' a weel-rounded doup. Och. but when he attempts to hae a crack wi' her, she snashes him back an' ca's him nae mair than a bluntie blellum. The neist lass he meets is a scroggie auld scaul' that snowks him out for a slidd'ry jaukiner from Ireland bent on houghmagandie (or waur), an' she gaes scraichin' to the bobbie...
...hummin' an' hankerin' at ilka Scottish hizzie that leuks as if she griens a kiutle. Hoch aye, what a collie-shangie! As the fourth day daws, the great ram-feezled bairn gaes spracklin' back to Beigg, ye ken, in a wee drunt. But the primsie lass he left behind shakes her cockernony at him and soon pits some rumble-gumption...