Word: emperors
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...gilded reception room in the Louvre is a fresco of the goateed sovereign himself, sitting on his throne and surrounded by puffy clouds and horn-blowing cherubs. . Flying toward him are two figures brandishing architectural plans and a model of the royal palace. The painting commemorates the Emperor's 1852 decision to expand the edifice by adding a new north wing, named after Cardinal Richelieu, to house his private apartments and expanding bureaucracy...
...MEMBER OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD ANSWERING CRITICS WHO SAY THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS ARE SQUANDERING PUBLIC MONEY ON A NEW 100-ROOM PALACE
...income. Penny can afford the risk -- he has already announced that this will be his last term in the House. And Kerrey, who has no plans for retirement soon, knows what he's up against. "I could walk into the Senate with a headband in Japanese lettering, salute the Emperor and go to my death offering major deficit reduction," he laments. Should a ceremonial sword be the prize for lawmakers who dare to give voters what voters claim to want...
After a successful campaign to defeat another country, a Roman emperor would force the king he had humiliated to parade, in chains, before the victors. In early October, the same kind of spectacle took place in Moscow. The humbled losers were not the defeated defenders of the White House, who capitulated with their hands over their heads. Boris Yeltsin's victims were instead the smiling leaders of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, who appeared before President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin to announce they would join the Commonwealth of the Independent States. The architect of this "class reunion," Defense Minister Grachev...
...arbitrary randomness, programmed chance operations and a nearly value-free definition of what constitutes music a satisfactory basis for an aesthetic? Was Cage the great artist his admirers proclaim, or was he merely an ersatz Dadaist, proudly parading around in his emperor's new clothes as he pursued a whole-grain, crackpot anarchism? "Rolywholyover A Circus," on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles through Nov. 28 and due to travel to Houston, New York City, Japan and Philadelphia over the next two years, provides some answers...