Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...older and wiser." GERARD DEPARDIEU is Porthos, JOHN MALKOVICH is Athos, and GABRIEL BYRNE is D'Artagnan, their friend and captain. The film by first-time director Randall Wallace (Oscar-winning screenwriter of Braveheart) is being shot in France and also stars LEONARDO DICAPRIO as the Sun King, Louis XIV...
...French designer Thierry Mugler. She loves shopping at the pricey places--Versace, Fendi, Chanel. Her taste in clothes, however, isn't always as sure as her taste in music. She tries on a floor-length purple coat that looks like something Rick James would have worn to Louis XIV's coronation. "Oh, my God!" she exclaims, loving it. Next, a lumpy bright orange coat that makes her look like a citrus industry spokeswoman...
...willpower; Loida is scholarly and low key, the author of three textbooks, and deeply religious. She is perhaps the only CEO of a multinational company who greets visitors with a hug rather than a handshake. He smoked power-broker cigars, traveled in a custom jet and kept a Louis XIV-style office suite in Paris as a pit stop. She finds little use for such captain-of-industry trappings. After consolidating power, the wealthy widow sold off the limousines and the private jet and dispensed with other perks. While Reg was a master of complex financing, Loida keeps a chalkboard...
...height of his absolutist influence, Louis XIV ordered a quick, decisive and successful bombardment of Algiers for harboring pirates. Afterward, a medal commemorating the event was inscribed with the words, "Algeria Fulminata" [Algiers Struck by Lightning]. In much the same vein, President Reagan could announce our successful blitzkrieg on the unruly Quadaffi in Libya in April, 1987; at the time, the U.S. still enjoyed virtual Sun King status in the West...
...fashion statement. Far from getting back to nature, the competitive gardener defies it, coercing the most inhospitable climates into growing orchids, coaxing water to run uphill, carving animals in topiary, all for slightly more than it costs to put a child through a year at Harvard. "Louis XIV started small and watched Versailles grow," says power gardener Martha Stewart, who over the past 25 years has composted vanity, domesticity and commercial genius into a multimillion-dollar empire. "Gardeners today want it big and they want...