Word: imperiale
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The Administration suspected that the operation diminished the Soviets' prestige, both by revealing the inferiority of the weapons they had supplied to Libya and by exposing their reluctance to do anything other than light up their ship and head for safety when fighting broke out. But General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...
As the commotion mounted, the Marcoses left Hickam Air Force Base after a month-long stay and moved into a $1.5 million beachfront estate in the exclusive eastern Honolulu suburb of Niu. The new home offers little of the imperial style to which the dethroned couple is accustomed: more than...
Wretched excess comes in many forms. Theologians distinguish the excess called avarice--the sheer, mean taking and hoarding of things--from the excess called prodigality, which is a messier and more full-blooded fault, a form of generosity, almost, but one that has come unhinged. Ideally, world-class plundering should...
For the new Anglo-India, a new kind of movie: fast, bold, harsh and primitive, like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat. My Beautiful Laundrette has no echo of eulogy in its street wit, no time for nuances of character in its rush to spray-paint...
Napoleon's young aide-de-camp, General Gaspard Gourgaud, left a journal describing the Emperor's last years on St. Helena, a speck of British territory in the South Atlantic. Gourgaud's entries, unintentionally hilarious, record the great man's stupendous banality after he lost the thing that made him...