Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing monographs on the goby (a spiny-finned fish of the Gobiidae family), playing the cello and raising his two sons and one daughter. His official duties have kept him fitfully in the public eye but not in the popular imagination. As Crown Prince Akihito ascends Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne, he remains a mystery to his countrymen and a cipher to the world...
...longest-reigning monarch on earth, Hirohito was the last survivor of the leaders of the World War II era. He occupied the Chrysanthemum Throne longer than any of his recorded predecessors. During his 62 years as Emperor, ( Hirohito presided over a nation that soared to heights of military arrogance, plummeted catastrophically and rose again to become a formidable industrial power. Through it all, the slight, stooped Hirohito retained an unassuming tranquillity. As Japan's national television network flashed the words TENNO- HEIKA HOGYO (the Emperor passes away) last Saturday, some of the country's 122 million citizens wept, some prayed...
Calvino explores hearing and smell with comparable insight and deftness. In A King Listens, a monarch whose power depends on his remaining glued to his ! throne becomes a paranoiac, his mind an echo chamber of suspicion, as he is deprived of all stimuli -- save for the aural -- from beyond his hall. And in The Name, the Nose, three characters try to track down unknown women whose odors have intoxicated them...
...sport has succumbed to greed and gluttony. Promoters are as well known as the boxers they represent. Boxing has become a sick side-show. Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, whose out-of-ring problems have earned more press than his in-ring triumphs, is a pitiful heir to the throne Muhammed Ali sat in for so long...
Shawcross briskly recounts the Shah's decline and fall, from the first wobbles of the Peacock Throne to the restrained dash to the airport with Queen Farah Diba, their entourage and pets. But unlike luckier deposed billionaires, the Shah did not have a soft landing. He had cancer and was coming down with an acute case of political leprosy. Switzerland, France and Britain, concerned about oil and terrorism, rolled up the welcome mat. Despite entreaties by the Rockefellers, who handled the fallen Shah's finances and provided him with a live-in public relations man, and Henry Kissinger, President Jimmy...