Word: emperor
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...actually reduced U.S. control over its leased military bases. Unlike the treaty it replaced, it ran for only ten years, after which it could be abrogated by either side. But much is irrational in Japan's politics these days. At war's end, the U.S. forced the Emperor to grant unprecedented political freedom. Ever since, the Japanese have reveled in it while giving a peculiarly Japanese twist. Favorite activity is protesting what they call the "tyranny of the majority...
Irish males prove equally elusive. Mike Groarke, as threadbare as he is arrogant, takes clothes, money and girls from Blay don with the air of an emperor accepting due homage. One moment Groarke is an intimate friend; the next, a malicious intriguer, and the next, a drunkard hitting out with anarchic fury. Just as baffling is upper-crust Palgrave Chamberlyn-Ffynch, who seems only a silly-ass clubman but whose character proves to have as many layers as an onion; hamhanded Jack Kerruish could not be anything more than an amiable athlete-or could he? Coves & Cobbles. Blaydon...
...Terrible Alternative. Unlike the lives of most theologians, Bonhoeffer's life was an extension of his beliefs. He was born with all advantages. His father was a leading doctor and psychiatry professor in Berlin, and his mother was the daughter of Emperor Wilhelm's chaplain...
...with a stream of U.S. bankers and executives. He logs well over 150 hours of air travel a year, on a recent visit to the Middle East dined with Qatar's Sheik Ahmed (he thoughtfully brought along a rocking horse for the sheik's son), conferred with Emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa, was received by the Prime Minister of the Sudan. Says Managing Director Fred Stephens: "You always wonder what kind of visa John will pull out of his pocket...
...mild-mannered Texan named Robert Rauschenberg. His exhibition at Manhattan's Leo Castelli Gallery last week drew admiring crowds, though some gawkers seemed in secret doubt of what they saw. As on another occasion, famed in fable when an emperor paraded in invisible clothes, the atmosphere was both festive and constrained...