Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that pompou, Roman senator on your cover [July 1]? It certainly bore no resemblance to the Frenchman with the long nose and the short memory...
Watson's weakest moment is unfortunately his most famous one, when he addresses the Roman plebs at Caesar's funeral in the Forum. Here he lacks sincerity and sonority. The crowd, however, handles itself rather effectively in this scene, emitting a susurrus of suspense before Brutus' harangue, and erupting into noisy iterations of a metrically unison spondee-anapest pattern before Mark Antony...
Will Steven Armstrong's basic set has a backdrop with Roman porticos painted on it, in front of which two monumental staircases slant in from the upstage corners. At the start there are two tall tapering silver fleches topped with Corinthian capitals, and a row of silver rods hanging behind. Other irregular rafts of widely spaced rods go up and down here and there during the play. There is nothing wrong with stylized settings, but to have players point to these batches of vertical rods and call them a "tent" is carrying license too far. Armstrong has clothed the cast...
...concerts are held in a 1,500-seat outdoor theater, a short walk away from the main house through a medieval gate from the palace of the Cappellettis (Shakespeare's Capulets) in Verona. The stage of the Venetian theater is built around three dozen 9th century Greek and Roman columns that were smuggled out of Italy several years ago and subsequently bought by the owners of Caramoor...
...footwear spanned a parcel of centuries, including everything from around-the-ankle-up-the-calf Roman sandles to two-buckle black motorcycle boots...