Word: ruler
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...124th Living God in a dynastic line stretching back more than 26 centuries. Children were told they would be blinded if they saw Hirohito's face; the very mention of his name was taboo. Yet Hirohito was well aware that he was to be as much pawn as ruler. Even as his advisers refrained from looking at him, they also refused to listen to him. His divine authority was not enough to suppress the military officers who began taking control of the country in the 1930s...
Ending a somber national vigil, the ruler of the Chrysanthemum Throne succumbs to cancer at 87. His son and successor, Crown Prince Akihito, remains a mystery to his countrymen and a cipher abroad. -- Despite Gorbachev' s promise that consumer goods will proliferate under perestroika, the opposite proves true. -- A day in the life of a Soviet shopper...
...verdict: not guilty. The accused, Louis XVI, rose from his gilded chair before the revolutionary tribunal and returned to his rightful place as ruler of France. At least, that is how it went last week in Paris during a made-for- television re-enactment of the luckless monarch's 1792-93 trial, staged as part of celebrations for the bicentennial of the Revolution. TV viewers, playing the jury, telephoned their votes to the TF1 network, which, along with Le Figaro, staged the re-enactment. The result: 55% decided that Louis should be acquitted of the charge of "conspiracy against public...
Creon (Peter Mitchell), Jason's father and ruler of Corinth, can be blamed for the relationship's messy breakup. Trying to be a good father, he looks out for his son's political best interests. He realizes that Medea is not from the right side of the Parthenon, so he sends her walking. Likewise, Medea's Nurse (Zoe Mulford) is looking out for her charge. Mitchell's hard-edged Creon is not exactly Heath-cliff Huxtable. But Mulford, with her sympathetic swooning and simpering, makes Mrs. Cleaver look like an absentee parent...
...occupied roughly the same space and time but who also possessed some otherworldly abilities. They numbered among their midst, for example, a cult of dream hunters, who could invade and move freely through the night thoughts of others. Unfortunately, these Khazars began to come to grief when their kaghan (ruler) decided in the eighth or ninth century that they should convert to Christianity, Judaism or Islam. Representatives of these religions were invited to present their cases before the kaghan. The debate, known as the Khazar polemic, led to controversy. Conflicting records awarded victory to each of the contending faiths...