Word: royalities
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...membership list of only 804 names. That belies the 6,000 who appeared in Taiwan on Ching Hai Day in October 1995. At that ceremony, she wore queenly robes ("under orders from God," she says), riding a sedan chair carried by eight bearers to the cheers of "your royal majesty." Those followers are keeping faithfully silent as investigators go through the sect's records. One admitted, though, that "believers are not allowed to speak to outsiders without permission from above...
...from China but from Cuba, and recruits from the countrys farthest shantytowns of the dispossessed poor. The organization's name has a bloody history. It first belonged to the nephew and heir of Atahualpa, the Incan King whom the Spanish conquistadores garroted in 1533. Tupac Amaru (which means "Royal Serpent" in Quechua) resisted his uncle's executioners for years, but was finally captured in 1572, whereupon he was paraded on a mule through the streets of Cuzco and beheaded with a cutlass. Two centuries later, his name was appropriated by another Incan rebel who, after his own arrest, was torn...
...royal pain in the ass, a walking conscience, the sort of brooding spirit people need but do not want around. He could not have come to America at a better time...
Over the din of his civil trial and the competing dins of the year--the Jackie O. auction, the John Jr. wedding, the royal divorce, Kathie Lee's weeping over sweatshops, the thrice-a-week movie openings, the newer-than-new all-news channels, the introduction of McDonald's Arch Deluxe to North America--rose the word of the decade: whatever...
WINDSOR OF DISCONTENT AWARD: Princess Diana, stripped of "Her Royal Highness" after her divorce...