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...This team is so strong it kind of frightens me," said Coach Payton Jordan. Indeed, to hear them chatter, the U.S. team that took on Russia last week was the hottest thing since sweat suits. "Each of us is the best in our field," boasted Hurdler Rex Cawley before the meet. "The Russians have two chances -slim and none," chortled High Jumper Gene Johnson. Munch, Munch. The words must have tasted bitter. After two disastrous days in Moscow, the men's team barely edged the Russians, 119-114, and the women's team lost by an embarrassing...
...chorus performed its best on the fugues, particularly in the "Rex Tremendae," and during the powerful stanzas of "Dies irae," "Hostias," and "Sanctus." Unfortunately, the potentially powerful beginning of the "Rex Tremendae" was marred by the painfully discordant entrance of the soprano section...
Cleopatra. As the Serpent of the Nile, Elizabeth Taylor hisses and shows her fangs; she also shows her bangles and her bosom, but little indication that she knows what made Cleo slither. If Rex Harrison is splendid as the urbane Caesar, Richard Burton is disappointing as the befuddled Antony who confuses lust with love...
...Rex Everhart's Archbishop of Canterbury does not seem religious (properly so, perhaps), but he injects a wonderful bit of humor into his long sophistry over the "Salique law" by following each occurrence of the word "daughter" with a "hmm?" Lester Rawlins makes a rich and colorful figure of the valorous Welsh captain Fluellen...
...first, which tells the story of Caesar and Cleopatra, begins with the battle of Pharsalia, which breaks the power of the republic and makes Caesar (Rex Harrison) master of the Roman world. Having ordered his affairs in Europe, Caesar marches into Egypt, where civil war is raging between King Ptolemy and his seductive sister, Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor). "Overcome by the charm of her society," as Plutarch discreetly puts it, Caesar gives Egypt to the fascinating bitch and seems inclined to crown her the first empress of Rome. But the Ides of March intervene, and Cleopatra sadly says goodbye...