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Tina Turner's first role since the Acid Queen in Tommy shouldn't frighten anyone away. As Auntie Entity, the self-styled empress of the "slimepit" Bartertown, she performs with a perfect pre-apocalyptic charm, which gives way only when she must express and contain the rage of a town whose people have only very recently lost everything they ever...
...Czar Alexander III asked a St. Petersburg jeweler, Carl Faberge, to make an Easter present for his Empress. The gold and enamel egg so pleased the monarch that he commissioned at least one every Easter. His successor, Nicholas II, continued the tradition, and for the next 31 years, until the Bolsheviks put an end to such inspired extravagance, there was always a Faberge egg in the imperial Easter basket. A gorgeous rooster pops out of the Chanticleer egg to announce every hour; the Peacock egg hides an enameled gold bird that struts on cue and fans its multihued tail; inside...
...Though the judge upheld the government's right to forbid unions at Cheltenham, he ruled that the Prime Minister should have first consulted labor leaders and the Cheltenham staff. The decision, which the government is appealing, fanned opposition-party charges that Thatcher has been acting like an autocratic empress. Said Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock, with ill-concealed glee: "You have been found guilty of breaking...
...controls the gate of the people in the book. And they are really weird people too. There's a flying dragon and a two-faced woman and figures like the chessmen you have in the den, Dad, and a handsome boy warrior and a wise little ballerina Empress of Fantasia. Noah Hathaway and Tami Stronach make a cute couple as these last two-sort of the preteen Arnold Schwarzenegger and Grace Kelly...
...route to Guam, Air Force One flight attendants handed out Taiwanese chopsticks ("A mistake," said a White House spokesman). The President slipped on a cool white guayabera shirt, while Nancy looked rather like an empress in her maroon lounging robe. As soon as Air Force One cut through the cloud cover and roared down toward Peking's airport, though, the balmy Pacific interlude was unquestionably over. The Chinese afternoon was dark and unseasonably chilly 54° F). Still, Reagan bounded coatless out of the 707, looking cheery as ever. The 19-mile drive into Peking must have been...