Word: regal
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...respected prosecutor and judge who was imprisoned and tortured under the dictatorial Greek junta of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Part of his career was dramatized in the 1968 movie Z. But the President has often been lampooned for his intolerance of press criticism and his regal life-style. After the bust, the government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou issued a statement assuring citizens that it respected freedom of expression...
...personal habits are less regal. He can often be seen tooling around Cambridge in a repainted Volkswagen Beatle--a gift of his mother--and picking up trash as he walks through the Yard. The first President not to reside in the official president's house at 17 Quincy Street, Bok lives instead off campus at Elmwood, formerly the residence of the dean of the Faculty. And while some of his administrators are taking breakfast at the Faculty Club, Bok prefers a hale early morning coffee at the Wursthaus in the Square. "They all know him there," says Rosovsky...
Hesburgh, who attended Notre Dame's Holy Cross seminary and later taught theology at the university, has gone at his prodigious works with unwavering energy and focus -- plus a regal self-assurance. A globe-trotter who covers as many as 150,000 miles a year proselytizing for Notre Dame, he has said Mass at the South Pole and at the Faculty House of the University of Moscow. (The difference between God and Hesburgh, goes an old campus joke, is that God is everywhere and Hesburgh everywhere but Notre Dame.) With this spiritual nourishment fed into a healthy ego, he retains...
...that really provides the bang for the buck. Zeffirelli and Costume Designer Dada Saligeri offer a regal gold and mother-of-pearl panoply: high atop a throne in the far reaches of the cavernous stage perches the black-clad, thousand-year-old Emperor (Swiss Tenor Hugues Cuenod, making his company debut at 84). For the first time the Met stage, which has swallowed whole such formidable productions as Nathaniel Merrill's 1966 Die Frau ohne Schatten, looks cramped. As is its custom, the Met declines to reveal the spectacle's cost, but best guesses run to about $1.5 million...
Within the Roman splendors of his apartment, Morricone induces daily doses of therapeutic distress by getting down to work with the dawn. "Tell me," he challenges, "what other composers get up at 5 in the morning?" Morricone does not use his regal Steinway grand for composition, but sits over his score paper at a desk in his workroom. The room, kept locked against the incursions of four children, ages 20 to 30, who still come by and "steal my records," also accommodates a broken 17th century organ, a functioning studio-size recording console, piles of music books and tapes...