Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first demonstrated his gift for evoking the past in the constant shimmer of good fiction eight years ago, when he published The Year of the French. The work received broad acclaim and was the National Book Critics Circle's choice as the best novel of 1979. It is a rich and complex telling of a rebellion on the west coast of Ireland, where in 1798 an army of the French Revolution landed and briefly allied itself with the restless peasantry against their English and Anglo-Irish masters. As one of many preludes to Clonbrony, the episode ended badly when Lord...
Born in 1890, Menzies was one of the golden boys of the British aristocracy. His family was rich and well placed, and he progressed comfortably along one of the courses marked out for England's future leaders: Eton, the Life Guards (whose duty it was to protect the sovereign), riding to hounds with the most exalted men in the realm...
...Syrian initiative could mark a breakthrough in attempts to end the seven-year Iran-Iraq war, which has threatened to engulf other nations in the strategic, oil-rich region...
...life of Pu Yi reads like something from "Poor Little Rich Girl." At the age of three, Pu Yi has servants, tutors, and advisers to help him rule the kingdom. Rule, however, is one thing that Pu Yi is not allowed to do. After four short years on the throne, a revolution he does not even witness from inside his palace forces Pu Yi to abdicate...
...debauchery and debasement. A master of capturing erotica, Bertolucci takes advantage of Pu Yi's early imperial splendor and later playboy lifestyle in Tienstin to give cinema some of the most sensual images since Bertolucci's own Tango. Bertolucci and Storaro follow the emperor and empress (Chen) as rich and powerful friends seduce them. While the emperor continues to foster megalomanic visions of regaining the throne, his wife takes to opium...