Word: empresse
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...ciale d'Architecture once remarked: "She has everything: beauty, grace, intelligence. She is a brilliant student." The girl did cut short her education in order to get married seven years ago, but that doesn't seem to have hurt her standing. Still dazzling, Iran's Empress Farah Diba, 28, traveled to Shiraz in southwestern Iran, donned the elaborate academic robes of Pahlevi University, which happens to be named for her husband, and accepted an honorary degree in science and arts as the university celebrated its fifth anniversary...
...cultures in order to be fathomed, moves murkily between the spirit world, the human world of an impoverished dyer and his sensuous wife (Baritone Walter Berry and Soprano Christa Ludwig), and the go-between world of an emperor and his wife (Tenor James King and Soprano Leonie Rysanek). The empress, alas, is without a shadow-she cannot bear children-and with the aid of a Mephistophelean nurse (Mezzo-Soprano Irene Dalis) she attempts to divest the dyer's wife of her shadow with promises of riches. In the end, after wading knee-deep through a quagmire of symbolism...
...without Ro meo. Yet Lynn Fontanne, 78, theater's grande dame, announced that she would make her first appearance in 38 years without Husband Alfred Lunt. TV fans will get the chance to see if the flame's the same next season when Fontanne plays the dowager empress in NBC's Hallmark production of Anastasia. Alfred will not be left home to tend the petunias. He is scheduled to direct the Metropolitan Opera's new version of La Traviata at the same time. And as his wife says, "When Alfred is working with...
...specimens for his marine-biology collection. Unlike his bold and high-living grandfather, Emperor Meiji, who used to select his bed partner by dropping a silk handkerchief in front of a court concubine, Hirohito became a happy family man and refused to take a concubine, even after his Empress gave him four daughters in a row (the fifth child...
...Aiglon, the only son of Napoleon and Empress Marie Louise, was the principal martyr of the Bonapartist tradition. The child was only four when his father was sent to St. Helena, but it was already clear, says Stacton, that he was "preternaturally intelligent, as precocious as Macaulay or J. S. Mill." In Austria, however, he was placed with tutors who were instructed to retard his development as much as possible. After a few years of repressive treatment, the boy became withdrawn and watchful. At 16, he developed tuberculosis. At 21, ignored by his mother and surrounded by doctors who tried...