Word: monarch
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...reached by the Satanists of 17th century France, who were rooted out by a secret court under Louis XIV. A famous case of that day involved a series of demonic rituals commissioned by a mistress of Louis who felt that she was falling out of favor. To regain the monarch's love, she had a corrupt priest say sacrilegious Masses *over her nude body in a subterranean Paris chamber, sacrificing a live child at the height of each Mass...
...success lies somewhere near the larynx of Christopher Josephs, who plays Henry IV. The play doesn't really exist until Henry enters and when he does it exists only on the terms of his mad role-playing. Josephs plays a one-man show, first delivering lines with a monarch's dead earnestness, then echoing himself and finally ho-ho-hoing with the most amusing laughter even to open at the Loeb. At least when Josephs ho-ho-hoed, I ho-ho-hoed--while the rest of the audience kept its peace...
...measure. Still, Reuss is more at home discussing the fine points of currency-exchange rates with European bankers and statesmen or reading a book. When Nixon agreed in talks with French President Georges Pompidou to devalue the dollar, Reuss quoted the remark made by Henry IV after that cynical monarch converted to Catholicism in order to gain the French throne: "Paris is well worth a Mass." To that Reuss added: "Now Mr. Nixon has determined that Paris is worth a minor dollar devaluation...
...Suzman are extremely good in the title roles, but one doesn't believe they were quite as shallow and naive as their lines indicate. One also wishes that the screenwriter had not put so many "Nicky" and "Sunny" references in the script; even though Nicholas II was a weak monarch not everyone could have had the audacity to call the Tsar of all the Russians "Nicky." Even Haldeman, Kissinger and Mitchell have admitted that they always call Nixon "Mr. President," never "Dick...
Died. Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, 51, King of the Himalayan state of Nepal and the world's only Hindu monarch; of a heart attack; in Bharatpur, Nepal. Though he was a member of Nepal's royal dynasty, Mahendra was kept a palace prisoner for the first 30 years of his life because real power in his country had long since fallen to the aristocratic Rana family. In 1951, Mahendra and his father King Tribhuvan led a popular revolution that ousted the Ranas, and four years later Mahendra succeeded to both the throne and control of the government...