Word: despots
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Iran is well rid of the Shah and his imperial trappings, but can it afford Khomeini [Feb. 12] with his illusions of an Islamic republic? Current relief and revelry over the dethroning of an imperial despot could easily turn into despair, frustration and bloodshed under a politically naive religious zealot...
...subject too, and soon we are having a fine time working out our traumas. My brother arrived with his friend at around 9:30 that night (which is also too late for visitors) and he spent the rest of the evening adjusting himself to life with a petty despot. The old man entertained his guests with instructions on how to peel oranges and tune television sets--not that he would allow anyone to perform either of these operations on his grounds. These were discorses on the theory of peeling and tuning-expanded at length into the logical basis of racial...
...AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH by Gabriel Garcia Marquéz. The author of the masterly One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) imagines a mythic despot in a fictitious South American country and creates a Kafkaesque saga with a Latin beat...
...This was the first of her movies with Spencer Tracy. Their later works were wittier and smoother, but nowhere did the chemistry match the sexiness of this first picture which was made by MGM in 1942. Hepburn found the script by two young writers and tricked the knish-like despot who ran the studio, Louis B. Mayer, into paying a huge sum for the rights by inferring that it was by the unfailingly successful team of writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. (They were under contract to another studio and, Hepburn suggested, couldn't sell a script under their...
...novella, is a fantasia about music and travel in the 18th century. Reasons of State, now translated into English, is the epic story, executed in comic opera style, of the downfall of the dictator of an imaginary Caribbean nation around the time of the First World War. An enlightened despot who prefers vacationing in Paris to tyrannizing his country, the unnamed Head of State returns to suppress revolts by trusted generals, crush his civilian opposition, and reflect the tedium...