Word: serpentes
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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...
Antony and Cleopatra, as Shakespeare conceived them, were superhuman symbols: Mars and Aphrodite, Rome and Egypt, hero and serpent twined in the grand passion that compels the universe itself. "The nobleness of life," they cried, "is to do thus," and as they "kiss'd away kingdoms" they ecstatically proclaimed the world well lost for love...
...latest fads. Last week, in the big hall designed by Mies van der Rohe that forms a wing of the original Greek revival building, he was showing something called Gorgo in New York-a papier-mache dinosaur walking over a city of toy cars and trains, a papier-mache serpent crushing a rocking horse, plus gears of a clock, a half-full milk carton, a pot of roses. It was made by Sculptress Niki de Saint-Phalle, who finished the job by spraying it white and splattering it with black by means of shooting attached bags of paint full...
...mallet-headed a paradise clearly cries out for some kind of serpent. Obligingly, the author supplies an industrialist named McKinney, who, with unlimited cash and chicanery, sets about acquiring the whole island so that he can turn it into a kind of floating museum of early Americana...
...addition to teaching, Morrison has written several books of verse: "the Serpent in the Could" (1931), "Notes on Death and Life" (1935), "The Devious Way" (1944), and "The Dream of Alcestis" (1950); and three novels: "The Stones of House" (1953), "To Make a World" (1957), and "The Whole Creation" (1962). He has also translated and edited "The Portable Chaucer" (1949) and edited "Five Kinds of Writing...