Word: sterne
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...scroll, The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, is a lively record of his 1689 voyage from Nanjing to Jinshan on the roiling Yangtze River. In the middle of a vast flotilla of two-masted sailing vessels is the Emperor's ship, identified by the yellow standard at the stern and the five-clawed dragon on the side. In a horseshoe-backed chair on the deck, Kangxi sits calmly stroking his beard. For all his achievements in scholarship, empire building and propaganda, the Kangxi Emperor had one major failing. After 60 years in power, he died without naming an heir...
...sense of skewed reality pervades the design of the play. We are confronted throughout by a giant portrait of Lenin painted on a broken wall, gazing down disapprovingly. His stern demeanor is broken, however, by jars (the brain-containing type) placed in alcoves cut out of the wall close to the ground and later, more strikingly, by backlit X-rays of people harmed by radiation, which shine out from Lenin’s formerly implacable face. Adding to the alternate-reality effect is the use of stilts for the party leaders and fat suits (and in one case, a costume...
...energy companies, a local bank and the Oklahoman, the state's largest newspaper. Within their first month in Oklahoma City, the Hornets sold more than 10,000 season tickets, the eighth best mark in the NBA. "My expectations were not set at the highest end," says NBA commissioner David Stern, "but they've been well exceeded...
...Brown, Secretary of Commerce --Eleanor Dean Acheson, Assistant Attorney General --Mary Jo Bane, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services --Federico Pena, Transportation Secretary --Donald K. Stern, U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts --Lawrence H. Thompson, principal deputy commissioner, Social Security Administration --Shirley S. Chater, Social Security commissioner
...Jonathan Edwards College, said he and his roommates had discussed throwing parties in coordination with other party suites. In the wake of the new regulations, however, the “Sextet” and many other suites have decided not to host parties, Dunham said. Dylan A. Stern, a Yale sophomore who lives in a party suite known as the “12-Pack” in Saybrook College, said he and his roommates have not decided yet if they will throw a party. “We might do nothing at all,” he said...