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...blunt and pragmatic Cassius is fine in the first half of the play, but degenerates into overwrought fustian towards the end. In his quarrel with Brutus before Philippi, his low delivery of "Brutus, bait not not me," with shaking knee, is ten times more powerful than all the torrent of screaming and bellowing he soon gives vent...
...hand of the sleeping king and kisses it -- a good touch. But then the director has turned the confrontation into a screaming nightmare. The king, who will be dead in a few minutes, gets out of bed, yells and lurches about like a Hercules; and Hal responds with a torrent of extreme anger that is utterly out of place...
...Torrent of Eulogy. While it has become almost routine for Congress to vote more funds for particular weapons than Defense Secretary Robert McNamara wants to spend-and for McNamara to ignore the appropriations-last week's bill "mandates" him to use the funds for the Navy's frigates. If enacted, it could result in an unprecedented constitutional impasse between the executive and legislative branches. The committee tried the same maneuver in 1962 under Rivers' predecessor, Carl Vinson, but the Administration was able to muster enough strength to persuade Vinson to back down...
...committee chairman's absence from the House (which delayed action on the bill for two weeks) resulted from a monumental drinking binge. Rivers, who has been on the wagon for years, mentioned bursitis, not booze, as the cause of his hospitalization, and his colleagues responded with a torrent of eulogy seldom accorded a living member...
First indication was the abrupt disappearance of his name from the Chronicle masthead, where he has been listed as president and publisher since January. Though all the principals involved immediately issued a torrent of stony silence-neither the Chronicle nor even the rival Post covered the story-the facts behind Mecom's canceled purchase murkily began to emerge...