Word: regaling
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...President's advisers insist that the re-election campaign has not begun and that the President will stay above the fray of politics until the last possible moment. But that is simply spin, a transparent effort to keep Bush enthroned as the regal war President for as long as possible. In many ways, the campaign that nearly failed in 2000 has never ended. When Karl Rove, the President's celebrated political strategist, drew up Bush's campaign strategy in 1998, he was thinking ahead not just two years but six, to 2004, because re-election is what defines a successful...
...Though not yet 40, Li has been making action films for 24 years?longer, for example, than Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the U.S., he's a reliable earner in medium-budget action movies. But as he showed last year, Li may need a Chinese director to bring out his own regal steeliness. In the Zhang Yimou hit Hero, he was more than a solemn killer. Radiating grit and elegance, he fully embodied the film's title. And nobody called him Bruce...
...other is the Jagmandir, a 17th century fortress topped by a dome that Marco Polo called "a jewel of white marble." The palace stands in a landscaped garden heavy with jasmine, frangipani and bougainvillaea. Formal water gardens enclose regal cupolas and elegant archways. Inside the fortress, a black-and-white-tiled courtyard hints at a sumptuous past. In 1623, the palace served as a refuge for the young Shah Jahan, future Mughal Emperor, after he revolted against his father. Legend has it that the galaxy of semiprecious stones?rubies, onyx, jasper and jade?laid into its marble interior so impressed...
...dinners, they will be entertained by parading elephants, dancing girls and cross-legged musicians. "We're offering tourists the chance to experience the life of royalty," explains Srivastava. At a cost of $3,000 per person, however, you might prefer to remain a subject. For more information on the regal option, call the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corp. at (91-141) 2203425/2203531...
...magician-technician, viewers can forget the absurd degree of difficulty in the logistical challenge of keeping nearly a thousand extras and dozens of crew members out of the way of Tilman Buttner's high-definition digital camera and instead go along for the ride in this regal fun house--madhouse, as Buttner rushes after a Czar's children or pauses to scrutinize a Van Dyck Madonna or performs his own virtuoso minuet when he enters the Nicholas Hall to discover a ballroom full of whirling aristocrats who dance the night away and finally exit down the grand staircase...