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...revives the play near the beginning of the second act, though eventually he too gets bogged down in the inanity of the dialogue. First congratulating the castrated Hasty ("A deed like this can make you a beacon of the school system," he says) and then scornfully branding him a "capon," Weinstein does manage to infuse the play with whatever sense of menace it finally conveys. Emily Apter is also fine in the stereotypical part of the teasing ingenue, and Lorenzo Mariano is sufficiently otherworldly as Squint, the philosophy student...
...have never seen them. I've just gone on other people's word." Of Burr's long-lived virility, Vidal added: "Burr was a small, trim little man, and small, trim little men last longer sexually. In fact, they last longer in general than more corpulent capon types, like George Washington, who seem to have no sexual vitality and a relatively short life...
...Seconds. During the Fords' first weeks in the White House, their private dinners have given a good indication of what their guests may expect: breast of capon with rice, a Haller chef-d'oeuvre; calves' liver and onions; filet of sole; lamb chops, filet mignon and sirloin (all the Fords' meat is broiled and there is a ban on rich sauces). For dietary reasons-but not because Ford, like a Borgia, has to have his food tasted for fear of poisoning-the President is always served separately; he receives a plate garnished by his chef with...
...funniest portions belong neither to Astaire nor Kelly nor to any of the meticulously choreographed clown scenes of the '50s. In clip after clip, they are outdone by unintentional comedy. The Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald epic Rose Marie (1936) offers the couple known to Hollywood as the Singing Capon and the Iron Butterfly in a Canadian Mountie scene that must be heard to be disbelieved. Even in the '40s, MGM knew that there were different strokes for different folks. Esther Williams could do them all, in a series of swimming-pool epics that for elaborate waste of money...
Gordon was a friend of Eliot, and Ginsberg, and Creeley, and Lowell, and Pound. He was, as Pound put it, "no capon priest, but a man o' men." Although Harvard, like any other college, has more than its fill of undergraduates who write sestinas, and think in Alexandrines, like Bunthorne in Patience or Fitzgerald's D'Invilliers, these were not Gordon's men and women. His were the honest, hard-working poets, who loved life, and loved their craft, and wrote, and thought, and lived, far from the ivory tower of academics...