Word: barbarianism
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...many a lubricant: embassy parties, cocktails, rounds of golf. But when commercial treaty negotiations between Townsend Harris, the United States' first consul in Japan, and the Tokugawa shogunate bogged down in 1857, a rather more personal angle did the trick: a maid- servant named Okichi for the lonely American. Barbarian comforted, deal clinched...
...concentrated on their work, some putting on the final details, others still wondering how to fill large blank spaces. Four-year mural crew veteran Kerry Coleman, a junior at Catholic Memorial, was painting the tusks on Hannibal’s elephants crossing the Alps, completing his depiction of the Barbarian invaders. “This is pretty fun,” he commented...
...These are not cosmetic changes. "Our foreign policy used to be based on indignity," explains a Beijing scholar. For decades, the country, which had suffered the humiliating defeat in the Opium War in the 19th century, acted as though barbarian troops were threatening to sweep across its soil imminently. But last year China scored a series of successes not through defensive belligerence but by raising its game, literally and figuratively: it won the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, its men's soccer team for the first time qualified for the World Cup finals and, most significantly, it joined...
...Parliament, despite rule nixing statues of living pols. Plastic figurine of John Major, though, will have to wait CELINE DION Canadian chanteuse releases first new tune in two years. Surprisingly, her latest song is about how love conquers all CONAN O'BRIEN Conan the Non-Barbarian close to getting $7.5 million deal to re-sign with NBC. It's nice to finally see someone from Harvard make good Losers PRINCE HENRIK Queen of Denmark's consort feels slighted by other royals. Lucky Danes don't settle grudges with poison, incest or petard-hoisting anymore RUDOLPH GIULIANI His Ex-Honor criticized...
Vegas is also the perfect place for Hickey, who has taught at the University of Nevada since 1992. It's a freebooting and democratic city where people with funny resumes fit right in. Whatever else he is--lucid hipster, tenured iconoclast and barbarian at the gates of art-world convention--Hickey, 62, is the only American art critic of consequence who used to play guitar for a country-and-western band. He is also proof that MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," like the one he was awarded this year, go to some shaggy characters, the kind who like low-rider cars...