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...public functions, was eventually smuggled onto St. Helena in 1818 and substituted for the exiled Napoleon as a British prisoner. According to Wheeler, Robeaud soon died of arsenic poisoning. The real Napoleon secretly sailed to Rio de Janeiro and eventually returned to Europe, where he lived as a diamond merchant in Verona...
...black/ And have not those soft parts of conversation/ That chamberers have," he escapes temporal boundaries and becomes the chorus of the ghetto. Similarly, Shylock cries, "... Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ... if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" The tone of the merchant's queries seems lifted not from ancient Venice but from some current Security Council dispute...
...wife and told her, This guy I don't even know is swearing at me because I won't do Shakespeare.' " But Shakespeare he did, later joining the National Theater, where he has played Lancelot Gobbo in Sir Laurence Olivier's revival of The Merchant of Venice, in The Captain of Kopenick with Paul Scofield and the lead in Peter Nichols' The National Health...
Sarah Caldwell is that kooky, rotund lady in Boston who thinks she knows how to put on opera. Sarah is forever racing round town, scrounging money from her merchant friends to pay off some irate truckers or meet an impending payroll. A woman possessed, and sometimes distracted, by her mission, she once drove home in the wee hours after an exhausting rehearsal, discovered for the umpteenth time that she had lost her keys, checked into a nearby motel for a quick snooze, then walked out and forgot to pay. Her mother recently offered her $1,000 in cash...
...knocked Fulbright out of the Senate is a handsome, affable six-footer with a smile that makes voters grin back. Son of a Charleston merchant, Bumpers was always ambitious, but until 1970 he had achieved, besides a country law practice, only a seat on the local school board and the post of town attorney. The latter job came easily; he was Charleston's only lawyer...