Word: lese
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...really was a case of lese-majeste...
...weaken. (At a recent ceremony, to count block-by-block votes for an operating council to carry out assembly decisions between meeting, a local judge was scheduled to preside. He was so obviously scornful of the local attitudes and informality that he was asked to leave; an act of lese majeste with profoundly encouraging implications for a neighborhood that just two years ago was totally dominated by a hat-in-hand attitude toward government officials...
...accepted an award from the Japanese Academy of Arts, then turned to the Emperor and pleaded: "Your Majesty, please help the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. My orchestra is on the verge of being driven out of existence because of financial difficulties." Before World War II such an act of lese-majeste was punishable by death. The Emperor only nodded slightly and said nothing...
HUGH MASEKELA IS ALIVE AND WELL AT THE WHISKEY (Universal City). The doughty South African expatriate trumpeter mixes jazz and rock with a generous quotient of his native folk music. Vistas of the veld spill out of his trumpet in Mra and from his scratchy singing voice in Ha Lese Le Di Khanna, a cattle-herding song. Little Miss Sweetness leans on the rock side. The most infectious track is Up Up and Away, which Masekela rescues from the TWA commercial and instills with a zestful buoyancy...
...France automatically belong if they change francs into dollars, thereby reducing De Gaulle's ability to buy up Fort Knox. But sticklers over niceties now ponder whether those who reciprocate the nastiness of De Gaulle, whose character combines le Roi Soleil and De Lawd, are guilty of lese-majeste or sacrilege...