Word: khan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trace her poet's imaginings. Mighty string-pulling brought a rare approval from the Chinese to visit Shangdu, in military territory 200 miles north of Beijing. This was the summer capitol -- pleasure dome is a fair description -- established by Kublai (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan, and a personage who, according to Marco Polo, "always rides on the back of four elephants, in a very handsome shelter of wood, covered inside with cloth of beaten gold and outside with lion skins." The location of the palace, and the vast size of Kublai's grounds, can be traced today, with...
...this: toothbrush, 1; wide-brimmed straw hat, 1; large, leatherbound geographical and poetical tomes, six or seven dozen. But Alexander's account of her travels, undertaken to set foot and mind on the actual places around the globe that inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge's misty and fantastical poem Kubla Khan, carries its erudition lightly...
Cranston's life as the taxi-catching Shadow is disrupted by the arrival of Shiwan Khan, a direct descendent of Genghis Khan, who wishes to take over the world--starting with the Big Apple. He plans to use the semi-mythical material broncium in an implosive device--something which Cranston christens an "atomic bomb." "Catchy," replies the scientist (yup, the one he saved at the beginning) who tells him about the broncium...
...Curry also pulls off his role as Farley Claymore, Reinhardt's odious partner, very well. He's as slimy here as he was in "The Three Muskateers," and completely power-mad--a perfect ally for Khan when the would be ruler tries to carry out his plan to take over New York...
Indian Classical Music Concert. WithMaestro Ustad Alla Rakha, tabla; Ustad ZaleirHussain, tabla; Ustad Sultan Khan, sarangi; andFazal Qureshi, tabla. Paine Hall, 7:30 p.m. $15for students...