Word: caesars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After an unsuccessful attempt to pay the students $1,000 to drop Daley Planet from the masthead, Warner Communications sued, claiming trademark infringement, injury to business reputation and engagement in deceptive practices. "Great Caesar's ghost," the Daley Planet declaimed in consternation. "If we'd known there would be so much trouble, we'd have changed our name to the Gotham Globe, or the Daily Bugle. Then we'd only have to worry about bats and spiders knocking at our office, and not the Man of Steel...
...premendous superiority as a contained, pressurized neutron bomb. But it is still a matter of who is the better man, the most commanding man, and though DeNiro is a celibate priest, he is the winner. He has that intangible, the almost spiritual worldliness of great character, of a Caesar or a Kennedy. It compels everyone he meets. This priest is not only a man of the world but a champion of the world. He's always at the center, controlled, impeccable, graceful. Though his gestures are small, disciplined, and almost delicate, they somehow compel, whether he is saying the High...
...rolls a mass of Guston's standard images-the trampling, dismembered limbs, nasty enough even without the bugs that advance with them across the floor. Then one realizes that the thing is a sly parody of a triumphal procession; its remote ancestors are the Mantegna Triumph of Caesar cartoons at Hampton Court, and, behind them, the tradition of the Roman battle sarcophagus...
...company for whom Robert Fletcher designed costumes in the AST's first season was a little-known young Canadian actor who played Antony in Julius Caesar and Ferdinand in The Tempest. His name was Christopher Plummer. The next year he portrayed Henry V both in Canada and Scotland--a stint that catapulted him to stardom, and a performance I have always regretted missing. For the past two decades Plummer has merited inclusion on any list of Plummer has merited inclusion on any list of the dozen finest actors in the English-speaking world. Like Guinness and (for a time) Brando...
...Frank Sinatra might have crooned last week after asking the Nevada Gaming Control Board for a gaming license so that he can become a consultant to Caesar's Palace. He once had an operator's license but lost it in 1963 because of his reputed association with Chicago Mafia Don Sam ("Momo") Giancana...