The Boston Globe, April 28th, 1988
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair! Percy Bysshe Shelley once came upon a statue of an Egyptian king whose legend of pride and power had been, he wrote, humbled by the "lone and level sands." But that was 160 years ago. Time, in a strange twist, has been kinder since then to Ramesses II, the 5-foot-6-inch redhaired pharaoh, master builder and, by all accounts, prolific lover who held sway over Egypt at the height of its ancient glory. Unlike the crumbled visage of the king the Greeks called Ozymandias, the restored pharaoh that thousands of Bostonians...
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