NY Observer > Julius Caesar http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/29197/feed Articles from Observer.com en A Ruckus Broke Out; We See Now the Damage http://www.observer.com/node/39452 There are four people at the bottom of Dante’s hell, and two of them are assassins.    read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/39452#comments Politics Bill Clinton Gabriel Range Julius Caesar Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Richard Brookhiser 39452 at http://www.observer.com A Ruckus Broke Out; We See Now the Damage http://www.observer.com/node/52705 There are four people at the bottom of Dante’s hell, and two of them are assassins.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/52705#comments Politics Bill Clinton Gabriel Range Julius Caesar Shakespeares Brutus Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Richard Brookhiser 52705 at http://www.observer.com Chris Matthews Remints a Good Cliche http://www.observer.com/node/33286 Chris Matthews' line on Zarqawi's death yesterday—"he's dead as Julius Caesar"—was ten times as poetic as President Bush's: "Zarqawi has met his end." And Bush's writers had more advance warning than Matthews's.

I gather the line comes from Malone on The Untouchables. Or did they steal it from Joseph Conrad's Victory, in which two character argue over the coal mine one is holding on to:

"`But all this is as dead as Julius Caesar,' I cried. `In fact, you have nothing worth holding on to, Heyst.'

Uh-oh. Just did a Google book-search on it and found it in Hawthorne, H.G. Wells, Simeon Baldwin. Oh well—good line, no matter who said it first.

]]> http://www.observer.com/node/33286#comments Chris Matthews George W. Bush Joseph Conrad Julius Caesar Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:42:47 -0400 Observer Staff 33286 at http://www.observer.com Glossing Over King: What About the Poor? http://www.observer.com/node/38524 A few weeks ago, when the nation celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/38524#comments Politics Japan Air Lines Julius Caesar Lyndon Johnson Martin Luther King Jr. Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:00:00 -0500 Michael MacDonald 38524 at http://www.observer.com How Nice of Denzel to Join Us! But This Brutus Is a Bust http://www.observer.com/node/50704 I must say that I've never appreciated movie stars who treat theater as a form of charity work.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/50704#comments Arts & Culture Denzel Washington Julius Caesar Neil LaBute William Shakespeare Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:00:00 -0400 John Heilpern 50704 at http://www.observer.com Handel's True Colors Revealed: A Great Composer for the Stage http://www.observer.com/node/50180 The so-called Handel opera revival has prompted the disinterment of so many treasures from the Baroq  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/50180#comments Arts & Culture Julius Caesar London Renee Fleming Stephen Wadsworth Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:00:00 -0500 Charles Michener 50180 at http://www.observer.com Worried About the War? Why Not Forget Your Troubles at Little Fish http://www.observer.com/node/47170 Forgive my uncharacteristically murderous mood, but I've just come from a new musical about a neurot  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/47170#comments Arts & Culture Charlotte Julius Caesar Michael John LaChiusa Paul McCartney Sun, 02 Mar 2003 19:00:00 -0500 John Heilpern 47170 at http://www.observer.com The Mysterian Manifesto: Shakespeare, McGinn and Me http://www.observer.com/node/43473 I have a confession to make.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/43473#comments Colin McGinn Julius Caesar William Shakespeare Yehuda Bauer Sun, 08 Oct 2000 20:00:00 -0400 Ron Rosenbaum 43473 at http://www.observer.com