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Best remebered for Last Tango in Paris, Italian director Bertolucci makes a triumphant return to the screen, this time chronicling the life of China's last emperor, Pu Yi (John Lone). Starting from the emperor's ascension to the throne at the age of three, Bertolucci covers nearly 60 years of Pu Yi's life in a three-hour extravaganza...
...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...
...conference was attended by about 400 scholars and statesmen from Europe and the United States, including the prime minister himself, the foreign minister, the mayor, and the heir to the throne of Luxembourg...
...that of the Archangel Michael, fiery with gold and transcendent with righteousness. The store of imperial riches has only increased with time. The Kremlin and Its Treasures (Rizzoli; 356 pages; $75) is a gilded album of Russian history recalled through the voluptuous chambers of the czars, the rococo throne of Catherine I and the spare, careful quarters of the Lenin family...
Tough words from the heir to the throne, however amateur his status as an architecture critic. And they were all the more jarring to Britons who consider their capital the embodiment of cultural sophistication. Yet the Prince had a point. Architecturally, the capital lost its way after World War - II. Shortsighted planners with paper-thin budgets did compound the devastation of the Blitz. The glories of John Nash's Regency terraces, Inigo Jones' Banqueting House, John Soane's Bank of England and Wren's churches were juxtaposed with discordantly cheap, gray cement-and-glass office boxes and grim "purpose-built...