Word: monarch
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...movie was made in England in 1957, some years after Chaplin, a British subject, abruptly exiled himself from the U.S. rather than submit to threatened McCarthyite inquiries about his politics and morals by immigration officials. The onetime monarch of the box office and American moviegoers' affection typecast himself as the deposed King of a mythical country visiting the U.S. to promote an Atoms for Peace program. From the King's point of view, America's movies are shown to be drenched in sex and violence, its jazz too loud (though what is played is a decade...
Richard is a vain monarch who laughs at the discomfiture of his nobles, ravages their estates, and surrounds himself with fops and flatterers. Too late he finds himself deserted and his angry lords allied to his enemy Bolingbroke, who marches triumphantly across England to secure Richard's abdication and his crown...
Indeed, Simon almost instantaneously has propelled himself into the elite circle of Administration officials -which includes Schlesinger, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Treasury Secretary George Shultz-who run vital parts of the Government as virtual baronies under a distracted monarch. Simon's predecessor as energy policy chief, John Love, complained that he could not get Nixon's attention; in five months in office, he was able to see the President alone only four or five times. Self-confident Simon took office proclaiming that he did not need to go running to the White House on every decision...
...true escutcheon was the round, dimpled bottom of Boucher's favorite model, an inhabitant of the Deer Park (as the villa where the royal mistresses lived was called) known as la petite Morfil. Miss Murphy was an Irish girl whom the Pompadour pro cured for her flagging monarch by the utterly rococo device of getting Boucher to paint her as the Virgin Mary in a decoration for one of the royal chapels. She is the ancestor of all the midinettes and grisettes and rotund milkmaids that Renoir was to paint a century later...
...Hairy Star." According to some biblical interpretations, a bright comet appeared over Judea around 7 B.C. shortly before the birth of Jesus. Oracles told King Herod that the "hairy star" was the harbinger of the birth of a boy who was destined to outshine the monarch himself. To thwart that threat to his supremacy, Herod went on a rampage of infanticide. In A.D. 451 a comet blazed overhead as Attila the Hun overran Gaul on a march that culminated in the invasion of Italy. A comet, depicted in the famous Bayeux tapestry, also appeared...