Word: empress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MARTHA STEWART Empress...
...official portrait approaches a kind of apogee in the Ming dynasty too, but the show contains some striking earlier examples. Witness the anonymous 13th century effigy of the Empress Chabi, wife of the first Yuan Emperor, Shih-tsu, better known to us as Kublai Khan. Did she look like that, this formidable dumpling? Who can know? But it's an image of detached power, the moon face framed in the magnificent red profiles of robe and towering formal headdress...
ENGAGED. JACKIE COLLINS, 53, empress of the trash read; and fiftyish shopping-mall magnate FRANK CALCAGNINI. The wedding will be the third time around for the author...
...emperor and empress of Japan today began a quiet pilgrimage to Nagasaki and Hiroshima to pray for the families and victims of the atomic bombings. Because former Emperor Hirohito's wartime role remains controversial, Emperor Akihito (the late emperor's son) timed the journey to miss the bombing's actual 50th anniversary, on August 6th. In a statement, he said, "I hope the world deepens its understanding ofnuclear weapons,and I pray for the repose of their victims and for peace, so that humanity will never experience such a disaster again." The muted tone of the royal journey mirrors Japanese...
From this point, it's pretty clear where the plot is headed. Just two major twists remain. First, we learn that the Tsar has been comatose for six months, leaving his wife, the power-hungry feminist Empress Uponyou, in charge of the country. (The Empress is an early version of a two-career woman, running Russia while caring for her daughter, the bratty, psychopathic Princess Ivanna Tention...