Word: lepidus
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...Festival's stage with impressive virtuosity. And he is not afraid to adopt a simple, symmetrical Renaissance blocking when this can support the situation of a scene. Take, for instance, the meeting of the Triumvirs (II, ii)--the ancient equivalent of our "smoke-filled room." Facing the audience, Lepidus sits in the center behind a wide, stone table and appears to need to draw strength from his furniture to compensate for his own weakness. The two other Triumvirs--Antony and Octavius--enter and sit separated by the table, testing and feeling out each other's strength while often refusing...
British officialdom believes that Molotov will be the Lepidus to Malenkov's Antony and Beria's Octavian. "It's as though he has been thrown across the gap between the old and the new regime, like a Bailey bridge. While Molotov's got a use, they'll use him. But once they've got their feet firmly planted on the other bank, the bridge will be discarded...
Senator James A. Reed, Democratic quizzer extraordinary from Missouri, glanced at Senator "Sonny" LaFollette seated below the salt (Caesar to his Lepidus), then shifted glint-eyed gaze to a Negro slouching easily back in his chair. The Senator: "Do you represent the second Chicago ward?" The Negro: "I am treasurer; 1 am chairman; I keep the books; I appoint and dismiss all officers; I am the second ward." Edward H. Wright, colored member of the Illinois Commerce Commission, scorned the U. S. Senate Committee sitting in Chicago to investigate "slush funds of the recent Illinois primaries" (TIME, July...