Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last Emperor (1987). And, arguably, the last movie epic, for its hero is the prisoner of world events, not the shaper. With sumptuous visual intelligence, director Bernardo Bertolucci created a poignant tale about the last Emperor of China -- the poorest little rich boy in the world...
...seeds of its own decay" and that the U.S.S.R. might turn out to be "one of the weakest and most pitiable of national societies." But unlike the little boy in the fable, Kennan was largely ignored by the crowd when he dared to say out loud that perhaps the emperor in the Kremlin was not quite so resplendent in his suit of armor. Now along comes Gorbachev to announce his nakedness to the world, and Yakovlev to confide that he too feels a chill...
...seriously about eventually retiring the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with honor, to be sure, but without too much nostalgia. Yes, NATO has helped keep the peace. But so has the existence of nuclear weapons, and so has the inherent weakness of the Soviet Union -- the nakedness of the red emperor before his enemies...