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Victim of the same sympathetic fallacy is Empire (NBC), the story of a great King, as in Texas' huge King ranch. Since it is a kidnaped stepson of Giant, it might have been written by somebody called Billie Sol Ferber, who proves that the West ain't what it was. One ranch hand punches another, and the punched man looks up and says feelingly: "I'm sorry for all your suffering...
Phaedra is, says Graham candidly, "a phantasmagoria of desire." The dance tells the story of Phaedra (danced by Graham herself), who is cursed by Aphrodite with an unnatural lust for her stepson Hippolytus. The spectator is left in no doubt about the nature of her passion-Hippolytus is first seen as only a pair of spotlighted, near-naked loins. Frenzied when Hippolytus rejects her advances, she tells his father that the youth had raped her, and the dance's high point is the visionary enactment of this lie in all the vividness of Phaedra's inflamed imagination...
...breasted queen of the Amazons. He lives in the home of Theseus and Theseus' young bride Phaedra. An outdoors he-man sort, Hippolytus neglects the service of Aphrodite, goddess of love. The goddess puts a sex hex on Phaedra, who is consumed with a ravenous passion for her stepson Hippolytus. She is rebuffed in her advances, and in revenge tells Theseus that the boy has made attempts on her virtue. Theseus prays to his father, the sea god Poseidon, to destroy Hippolytus, meanwhile banishing his son from Troezen. As Hippolytus drives along the seashore, Poseidon sends a sea monster...
...Brussels auction last year, Antique Dealer Victor van Uytrecht noticed two handsome 18th century bronze busts of Roman soldiers in coats of mail. He bought them and took them back home to Namur. There, Van Uytrecht's partner and stepson noticed that one of the heads seemed a bit loose. When he tried to tighten it, the bust came apart. Inside was a wooden box, bound with red silk bands and heavy seals, inscribed Cap. S. Felicis...
...great Queen Victoria's blanket." Over the years, Mantsebo successfully parried each attempt to edge her out, but last week a new, more dangerous threat was on the scene: a tall, natty young Oxford student just back from England. He was Constantinus Bereng Seeiso, Mantsebo's stepson and legitimate claimant to the paramount chieftaincy. Bereng was only two years old when his father, Paramount Chief, died in 1940, and Mantsebo, the senior wife, took over as regent. Now he had come of age, and was demanding his throne immediately so that he could be in power in time...