Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walked step after step, stiffly, as though he were not bending his legs, more bronze emperor than ever in a dark uniform surrounded by light and white uniforms ... a legendary figure returned from some imperial tomb...
...date 1467 and the inscrutable initials E.S. To this day, nobody knows his identity. Some scholars believe he was Egidius Steclin, a 15th century goldsmith who worked in the Duke of Burgundy's court. Others insist that he was Erwin von Stege, onetime mintmaster to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III. Or, as one archivist suggests, was he really Endres Silbernagel, an obscure Freiburg painter who died of the plague...
Beyond the Great Wall. During the Han Dynasty, there lived an Emperor named Yuan Ti with a harem as big as all the Playboy clubs. He tried manfully to give all his wives the personal touch, but there were so many he never got around to meeting them all. To remedy the situation, his highness had a court painter limn pictures of the girls, then present the likenesses to him. Those that passed the silk-screen test got to play the palace...
...artist, was a bad man who demanded bribes from the girls and painted only those who had a yen for him. When the most beautiful candidate of them all (Lin Dai) refused to pay him, he painted an ugly picture of her, and it was three years before the Emperor accidentally ran across...
SPECIAL ON CBS, The Emperor's New Clothes (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Jim Filer's musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic performed by New York's Prince Street Players, Ltd. Will B. Able, Marcie Stringer and Fred Grades star...