That is the bare-bones account of the amazing life of the last emperor of China . . . the movie version is quite a bit more engaging and moving. The movie jumps back and forth between its “present time” in the 1950s and flashbacks to Pu Yi’s life as emperor and figurehead. It ...
For thirty-two years, nearly thirty-three, he had been an honest man; he had followed the tracks, as he had proclaimed last night with so much vehemence, being a good son, good student, employee, husband, father, and the owner of a house on Long Island; he had never broken any law...
It is the last glimmering of a now vanished era when you could still find yourself standing on the field of honor with a raised pistol, or attending a masked ball where the mistress of the emperor, her eyes wide, her breasts heaving, might squeeze your hand and whisper ‘tonight’. It ...
Meanwhile, Portland already has 53 homicides this year and is well on its way to beating its all-time record of 70 set in 1987, following last year’s City Council decision to cut $15 million from the police department. 3.“The Cost of the School Shutdowns” is the subject of a ...
The Qing Emperor nearly falls to a Ming lady assassin, when they suddenly find themselves in 2003 Hong Kong. Later they make an uneasy alliance against their co-workers at the tile company they end up employed by. Kiteretsu Daihyakka animated; 1987 Nov 02 - Nippon TV special based on ...
Author: Velloso, Wilson Article Title: The emperor's black bag Publication Name: News from Brazil News from Brazil Volume & Number: V.8; N.125 Publication Date: 05-31-96 Page: p. 18 The emperor's black bag. In a sudden surge of Victorian prudery, the Camara dos Deputados - the Braz...
Don’t let the occultism of the examples put you off. After all, the earliest forays into movable books occurred in alchemical and Kabbalistic tomes. As Kiesel, also a book maker, points out: Opening a folding plate causes an interruption in the reading process. It offers the reader an op...
In China, this sort of thinking goes right back to the first emperorQin Shi Huangin the 3rd century BC, but its history is a lot longer than that. As far as we know, the earliest rulers to try this on were the ones known to us asThird Dynasty of Urin what is now Iraq, back ar...
Running from 1982 to 1987, this anthology series was made up of adaptations of classic fairy tales starring numerous Hollywood performers and celebrities. There was the occasional misfire (Mick Jagger in yellowface basically sleepwalking as the Emperor in The Nightingale), but the majority of the ...
Edith de Born published her last novel, The Negligent Daughter in 1978. She and her husband moved from rue Royale to a grand townhouse in the rue Marteau decorated with priceless paintings by Picasso, Miro, and Paul Delvaux and run by superior Flemish housekeeper. She died in 1987. Categories...