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...depends, of course: Bad taste in what? There were Nazis who came home from work at Auschwitz and listened to Mozart. An elegant emperor may also be a sadist or an idiot or a weakling. If good taste were the qualification for leadership, the greatest Presidents might be interior decorators...
...bought his Colored People, but its apparent aim is to celebrate his acquisition of new clothes (with a very private label of "Chair" from the renowned designed, Harvard) and make some money while he's at it. Perhaps Gates should read less Derrida and more Hans Christian Andersen, "The Emperor's New Clothes" in particular...
...this wily and enterprising Castilian landed at what is now Veracruz. A few months later, he and his bedraggled company of 300 soldiers entered the Mexican capital of Tenochtitlan, a city more grand and imposing than any in Europe except Naples or Constantinople. Cortes managed to take the emperor Montezuma II hostage, but after Montezuma died during an uprising of the Mexica, apparently from wounds inflicted by his own people, the Spaniards were driven from the city. The undaunted Cortes returned with a larger force that included disaffected Indian vassals of the Mexica. In the course of a brutal seige...
...myriad conflicts that ignite female relationships, Canin stalks the less traveled turf -- at home, at work and at play -- where men wage undeclared hostilities against one another. In The Palace Thief (Random House; 205 pages; $21), a superb collection of four novellas, as in his acclaimed earlier fiction (Emperor of the Air, Blue River), Canin also reminds us of a more interior battle: the struggle among men to discover who they really...
...Forum Affair. Through March 22. The Hasty Pudding's 146th production. Set in the decadence of Ancient Rome and the passion-drenched sands of Egypt, the show features love, death and lust for power as the throne of the Roman Emperor, Pompey Circumstance, hangs in the balance. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m. $20, $28. Tickets are available at the Hasty Pudding box office...