Word: despot
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CORAZON AQUINO 1986 Inspiring People Power, a widow ousts a Filipino despot...
...most writers of memoirs blame their parents for turning them into screw-ups, Coetzee takes a decidely unconventional turn. The young Coetzee resents his privilege. At school, he is the model student, finishing first in all his classes without a semblance of strain. At home, he is "an irascible despot," displacing his ineffectual father as the household's center of attention: "He has never worked out the position of his father in the household. In fact, it is not obvious to him by what right his father is there at all." His mother, in contrast, dotes on him with smothering...
...negotiations with the disintegrating guerrilla group, offering jobs in his army, which was far smaller than Second Prime Minister Hun Sen's. Those negotiations probably led to a revolt within the Khmer Rouge ranks. In June, Khmer Rouge radio announced that Pol Pot had been arrested, though the elusive despot was not produced in public...
...first glance, Dr. Andrew Weil's 8 Weeks to Optimum Health plan looks easy. Dr. Weil, reasonable fellow, says eat salmon, olive oil, garlic, soy sauce, ginger, broccoli. I like all that stuff. But Weil, dietary despot, also suggests eating tofu, which is organic styrofoam; drinking Japanese green tea, which tastes like water in which tadpoles have died; and popping 6,000 mg a day of vitamin C, which sours my giblets. I'll give these a miss. And, ouch, here it comes: "Moderate or eliminate intake of animal foods, booze, coffee and news...
...even weirder at Warner. Harry Warner, the studio's money czar, said he knew nothing about his cartoon unit except that "we make Mickey Mouse." Leon Schlesinger, the stingy despot who ran the unit until 1944, would begin his viewing of dailies with a curt "Roll the garbage." Schlesinger did inspire his troops once: his lisp was the basis for Daffy Duck's voice. Schlesinger's successor, Eddie Selzer, hated the notion that his slaves might enjoy their work. He once sputtered, "What the hell has all this laughter to do with the making of animated cartoons...