Word: napoleonism
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...enemy stalking women," charmed everyone from diva designer Isaac Mizrahi, who said,"Charles really blew it when he dumped her," to solid soldier Colin Powell, who, after scoring the first dance, opined, "She's a lot of fun." Earlier in the day, Diana shared an egg, tomato and crab Napoleon breakfast with HILLARY CLINTON, Washington Post doyenne KATHARINE GRAHAM and about 120 others. "This is one of the nicest British invasions of the White House," said Mrs. Clinton, before departing early. After lunch with George Stephanopoulos, among others, Diana slipped into an ivory lace, beaded backless number--like ELIZABETH DOLE...
...Salvador's former President Jose Napoleon Duarte, suffering from a cancerous stomach ulcer in May 1988, flew to Walter Reed on a U.S. Air Force C-141 equipped as a flying hospital...
Cinema Europe's hero is Abel Gance, who in the 1927 Napoleon harnessed an epic delirium unmatched before or since. "Here," Gance said, "was a new alphabet for the cinema." But with the entry of talking films that year, the language of silents became as obsolescent as Yiddish. Films got chatty, conservative; they still are. Most modern directors don't know Gance's "alphabet." They can barely spell...
Most of these facts are in books, but it's a joy to see the evidence come to life, both in the rare, thrilling clips and in interviews with film veterans, still vital, still proud. Simon Feldman, the Russian techno-wizard who worked on Napoleon, was 103 when Brownlow found him. Feldman caresses photos from the film as if they held the secret of eternal youth...
...claimed, Princess Anastasia of Russia) or hereditary diseases (that's how they hope to prove Lincoln suffered from Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes its victims grow tall and gangly). Hair also soaks up drugs and other foreign substances from the body (low levels of arsenic in Napoleon's hair established that the ex-Emperor probably wasn't poisoned, as some historians believed...