Word: empress
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...While locals are up in arms about the project, it has also resonated overseas, in part because the historic center of St. Petersburg - once home to Empress Catherine the Great, poet Alexander Pushkin and novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky - has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, the cultural arm of the U.N., since 1990. If the tower is built, the body has said it may revoke the city's status, as its "outstanding universal value" would be under threat. (See pictures of the natural sites nominated for the World Heritage List...
...Wintour we meet is still capable of the kind of arbitrary intimidations that might inspire a damning best seller. But this empress definitely is wearing clothes. Flattering ones. And if she knows her own mind, she also knows when to change it. As Cutler pans over the final layout for September 2007, complete after a half-year's labor, the camera catches the image of a zany rubber dress from an early "textures" shoot that Coddington had loved but Wintour had removed. There it was, bound for the newsstands. Was it restored in service of the story or in deference...
...made her way through a town famous for celebrating its dead--in a glass-topped coffin and glass-walled hearse, no less--she displayed the unapologetic verve that she and Ernie were known for: they both wore head-to-toe white and jewelry befitting an emperor and his loyal empress...
...relationship with this boy would have raised few eyebrows - the Roman élite embraced homoerotic culture and celebrated it in works of art. Hadrian's reaction to his death, however, was unprecedented. After Antinous drowned in the Nile in A.D. 130, Hadrian mourned him as if he were an Empress and encouraged cults to venerate the lowly youth. He surrounded himself with marble statues and busts of Antinous, at least 10 of which have been unearthed, including a spectacular 8-ft (2.4 m) statue depicting him as Osiris, an Egyptian god who drowned in the Nile and was later reborn...
...there are many occasions when the family chronicle becomes more like a family scrapbook in its sketchy and elliptical nature. But the omissions occur less because of carelessness than because emotional confession falls beyond the range of the Horne style. It may be that inside every black princess an empress of the blues is struggling to come out, shouting her salty grief like Bessie Smith. But like her mother, the author is too polite to shout, and too honest to fake it. The story of Lena and Gail can be measured in privilege and recognition; what remains incalculable...