Word: imperiale
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IMPERIAL BELLS OF CHINA. The clang and whir of hypnotic musical instruments, the swish of dancers' 6-ft. sleeves and the rainbow splendor of ceremonial robes are explained by Gregory Peck's recorded narration in this imported spectacle now touring the U.S.
Talk about your dish! In 1963 English gossip columnists figured they had died and gone to tabloid heaven. When these peccadilloes hit the front pages, you couldn't tell the players without a Who's Who and a Burke's Peerage. The scandal, a wild party held at the sunset...
But is it really possible that Howard Johnson's simply disappeared, and without anyone saying farewell? No, the reality is more interesting. From the day in 1928 when Howard D. Johnson opened his first roadside stand, in Wollaston, Mass., to sell hot dogs and a rich chocolate ice cream of...
History has played few tricks with as many odd twists and turns as the U.S.'s imperial adventure in the Philippines. In his first book since Vietnam: A History, journalist and historian Stanley Karnow chronicles 90 years of the U.S.'s relationship with its former colony with a keen eye...
This extraordinary history of the French Revolution begins with a three- story-high plaster elephant standing guard in the Place de la Bastille. Commissioned by the triumphant Emperor Napoleon, eventually to be recast in the bronze of captured cannons, the elephant was designed to make Parisians forget their revolutionary past...