Word: empresse
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...shimmies across the stage of Manhattan's Ambassador Theater in a rhythmic roll that more than matches her vocal size. Me and Bessie, Hopkins' nearly one-woman musical revue (she is backed up by two dancers), recalls the history of Bessie Smith, from tent singer to Empress of the Blues...
...many viewers across the U.S. wondering momentarily whether they had heard the anchor man right. Was it Hawaii, the final leg of the Emperor's U.S. tour-or was the royal couple back in Tokyo? After all, practically all of the smiling and handshaking officials greeting Hirohito and Empress Nagako seemed to be Japanese. And so they were: Americans of Japanese ancestry. Few mainlanders realize the extent to which AJ.A.s, as they are known in Hawaii, have flourished in the islands and now dominate their politics...
Like some other imperial visitors before them, including Ethiopia's late Emperor Haile Selassie and the Shah of Iran, Japan's Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako last week paid a call at that West Coast U.S. shrine, Disneyland. During their 90-minute visit at the vast fantasy park outside Los Angeles, the imperial couple chatted with a king-sized Mickey Mouse and watched a Bicentennial parade. What interested the Emperor most? Disneyland's diorama of primeval life in the Grand Canyon, depicting a variety of prehistoric animals-all of which seemed far more familiar...
...Rome in 1899. They were married that fall and set up housekeeping on his 80,000-acre estate in the Ukraine, but the idyl ended suddenly in 1917 when the Bolshevik revolution forced them to flee to the U.S.-she with her jewels, including the ring of an Empress of Byzantium, and five oil paintings concealed in her skirts. Back in her native Washington, the princess eventually divorced the prince, who died in 1955, and lived out her years as an outspoken champion of the G.O.P. and one of the capital's more spirited hostesses...
...Thursday morning, the Emperor and Empress journeyed to Washington by limousine to meet the President. The grounds of the White House were packed for the occasion by an unusually large crowd of 2,000 spectators, plus a 300-man Japanese press corps that could match its American counterpart in competitiveness. Shortly before the royal couple were due to arrive, a small red airplane suddenly appeared startlingly close to the White House. It was towing a banner, hooked up backwards, that read: EMPEROR HIROHITO, PLEASE SAVE OUR WHALES. (It later turned out that the flight was sponsored by the Animal Welfare...