Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have the biggest ego since Napoleon and resort to anything in order to win his varied wagers. But he has got many men over 40 out of their easy chairs and onto a jogging track or tennis court. For this reason, and this reason alone, Bobby Riggs is the man of the hour...
...impressions do not carry that magic proportion of the book with which he can rest easy--he does not seem responsible for a majority of his material. He never met her. He doesn't even quite have hold of the metaphors in the book. He imagines Marilyn as a Napoleon of publicity who meets her end on a Fifth Helena Brentwood. As a starlet who made it seem easy as "ice cream." As a protean personality of opposites, sentimentality and Grand Bitchiness, soft as lamb's wool and cruel as steel; and finally Mailer has her at her core...
...speech meant agitation against the shaky government. Freedom of religion meant that the Buddhist peasants could hope to overthrow the largely Catholic middle class. Just as the French middle-class Marx wrote about found that the democracy it believed in endangered its rule and so accepted the dictatorship of Napoleon III, Vietnamese liberals found themselves accepting the dictatorship of General Diem, and refusing to hold a national election, as they had promised...
...crowd and released a bird that was nesting in his hair; Bobo Holloman, who pitched only one complete game in the majors-and that one a no-hitter. There are players whose names alone could render them immortal: Eli Grba, Fenton Mole, Eppa Rixey, Wally Pipp, Napoleon Lajoie. All these men, the immortals and the "flakes," exist like the game beyond the erosions of style and time...
...astonished to read that Napoleon had ransacked the antiquities of Egypt for the Louvre. It would have been difficult for him to do so. As everyone knows, he slipped out of the country in a small frigate with just a few followers, carefully concealing his departure from the rest of the expeditionary force. The latter would not have been in a better position to bring back any loot, as they made the trip on British ships after capitulation. What they might have gathered−including the famous Rosetta Stone−eventually found its way to the British Museum...