Word: overlorded
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Fallen dictators age badly, even in Hawaii. Toward the end, Ferdinand Marcos, once overlord of the Philippines, had become a joke. He mumbled that he was living on charity, but visitors to his rented $2.5 million residence $ outside Honolulu saw the dozen servants, the 30 bodyguards and the chauffeured limousine. His wife Imelda was a regular at posh local shops and every now and then gave in to the temptation to show off her finery -- except for new shoes...
...fall; she cut a swath through the advertising department, firing the ad director and eliminating dozens of jobs -- then quit after just five months. On the editorial side, the managing editor and Hollywood bureau chief have resigned, and top editor David Sendler must now answer to a new corporate overlord: Roger Wood, former editor of the sensationalistic New York Post, which Murdoch owned until last year. "There's no interest anymore in analysis of the industry or in taking a serious look at the content of TV news," says an unhappy staffer. "The watchdog role that TV Guide has traditionally...
Unlike America's yeoman farmers, the East European, Russian and Asian peasants were unlikely to own full title to their land or to produce more than their family and feudal overlord consumed. Their impoverished rural existence fostered these attributes of peasant societies: a leveling egalitarianism that prefers to see a neighbor fail in any efforts at improving his lot; envy that a neighbor may be better off, coupled with a belief that he must have cheated; suspicion of anything new, since most changes were for the worst; rampant superstition; and, finally, an unquestioning acceptance of a higher, distant authority, like...
...hope that the surprise resignation of Burma's military overlord, Ne Win, 78, would lead to reform was quickly extinguished last week. Three days after Ne Win stepped down, the Socialist Program Party, Burma's sole legal political body, chose his protege, Sein Lwin, 64, as its new leader; the next day parliament named him the country's President. A retired army general, Sein Lwin is the longtime head of the dread riot police, the Lon Htein, and one of Burma's most feared men. He lived up to his nickname "the Butcher" when he ruthlessly suppressed student riots earlier...
...fact, no one wants Gaza. In its 19 years as overlord, Egypt did little but use the strip as a free port and cheap vacation spot for its soldiers. Today Cairo turns its back on Gaza by maintaining a barbed-wire border that Palestinians are not allowed to cross. Though some Gazans look to Jordan for guidance, King Hussein feels little responsibility for the territory. While West Bank Palestinians hold Jordanian passports, the nationality of Gazans is officially "undefined" on the travel documents they must obtain from Israel. Gaza has become such an afterthought that it is rarely mentioned...