Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...postwar growth of both France-Soir and Elle, the women's fashion magazine. Though Lazareffs outspoken support of Charles de Gaulle resulted in the bombing of his home and newspaper offices during the Algerian crisis, his aggressive management of France-Soir earned him the title "Napoleon of journalists"-and a daily circulation...
...Fontainebleau, the British newspaper publisher Lord Northcliffe once tried on Napoleon's hat. "It fits me," he wrote delightedly. Northcliffe was crazy by then, but putting on Napoleon's hat wasn't as crazy as it sounded. There was never anyone in Fleet Street-perhaps not in journalism anywhere-who suited it better...
...nearly impossible to remain neutral about Trotsky. Stalin frothed on about him as the counterrevolutionary schemer. George Orwell personified him in Animal Farm as the loquacious pig Snowball, driven out by the dictator pig Napoleon and afterward blamed for everything that goes wrong on the farm. For decades, many liberal intellectuals have overheated their imaginations and their prose on an image of Trotsky as the unbending political outcast and talented literary man. To his closest followers, he was a saint who suffered his final martyrdom in Mexico on Aug. 20, 1940, when a Stalinist assassin buried an Alpine...
...violence are the stunt-men's wives. He has transformed Christian anger into adolescent braying. He has made a hard-driving piece of sensationalist entertainment, but the only serious subject I see Kubrick able to cope with after it is military history. He's currently prepping a film on Napoleon...
Nothing Oldenburg does is lacking in irony-and this includes his wish to make monuments. The traditional language of monuments was heroic-Napoleon gesturing on a marble plinth festooned with trophies and Graces, or Verrocchio's statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni raking his bronze eyes across a conquered piazza from his striding horse. The monumental hero is, actually and metaphorically, bigger than life. But to make one, there has to be some belief in heroes, and there must be something to celebrate...