Word: imperiale
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The Victorians, as Chesterton observed, were "lame giants; the strongest of them walked on one leg a little shorter than the other." It was an epoch of elegance and kitsch, dignity and pornography, liberal cant and imperial overreach. It is this instability that enlivens-and afflicts-Brian Moore's...
Michael Crichton's THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (Knopf; 266 pages; $7.95) happily contributes to the current revival of British imperial style. In Sherlock Holmes reprints, The Great Victorian Collection and innumerable biographies, Victoria Regina rides again. For this intricate mystery, her very nation moves to life. The vowel sounds...
> Northrop paid $705,000 to Iranian Prince Charam Pahlavinia, a member of the imperial family, for services such as helping the company find a good Iranian architect. At the time, Northrop was part of a consortium that received a $200 million contract to build a telecommunications system in Iran. Northrop...
The University is also connected to Iran's own elite through its proposed center for community health, which is part of the new medical complex that, Leahy says, is being built as a "direct interest" of the royal family. The health center will be staffed by post-graduate M.D.s working...
2) The Soviets, who two months ago were pressing to reconvene the multi-nation Geneva Conference, are now less eager to sponsor such a meeting. They are worried that it might fail and seem resigned to another Kissinger attempt at direct diplomacy. At his meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei...