Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than a minor border skirmish. A series of frontier infiltrations and espionage attempts had forced Cairo to teach Libya's erratic strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, a lesson in good manners. Rather like a stern uncle rebuking a wayward nephew, President Anwar Sadat described Gaddafi as "a second Napoleon" and "just a child"-inspiring Tripoli spokesmen to dismiss the Egyptian President as "a Zionist tool...
...well worth the price of admission. Beethoven and Napoleon materialize, as do Concord coaches, corduroy roads and a fully outfitted Mississippi River steamboat. With a few judicious details as props, Gavin creates palpable illusions of scenes 150 years old. Schlumberger and a companion stalk the New York waterfront at night: "Now and then they entered the nimbus of a gas lamp hovering just over their heads like a phosphorescing sea creature. Schlumberger heard the sinister hiss behind the glass. One pace beyond the lamp his shadow was squeezing from under his heel squat as a dwarf, and four strides later...
...time about these things, but it happened very quickly," reminisced Princess Grace, who said yes to Prince Rainier after only a few dates. Actually Daughter Caroline, 20, has ears -and eyes-these days only for her beau, Philippe Junot, a boulevardier and sometime insurance broker who is descended from Napoleon's aide-de-camp, General Andoce Junot. The couple met a year ago and have been together ever since. Junot, 36, has even received the imprimatur of the palace: an invitation to share the royal box at a tennis championship match in Monte Carlo. "Of course I love...
...Jamie, Wyeth readied himself for the real reason for his visit: his induction into the prestigious Academic des Beaux-Arts. Only the second American painter to receive the honor-the first was John Singer Sargent-Wyeth gamely spruced up in the member's uniform, a style decreed by Napoleon: a dress suit richly embroidered with gold. "Splendid," beamed the artist, tucking the traditional bicorne under his arm. "I'll wear it to every dinner party...
Unfortunately, Richardson analyzes only one side of the complex Hugo-the bad side. Where two interpretations of the man's intentions are available, she chooses the unflattering. On the basis of one antagonistic witness, for instance, she argues that Hugo first turned on Louis Napoleon because he was not offered a suitable Cabinet post. In her discussion of Notre Dame de Paris, she observes how "[Hugo] presents the rabble with the gusto and the crudity of Breughel." Anyone who can turn Breughel into a pejorative cannot judge ordinary artists, much less Olympic...