Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weighted inflatable punching doll, keeps bouncing back. Boasts the mayor: "If I ran tomorrow morning, I could beat anybody in this town." As for the allegations of dishonesty, "If all this corruption was going on, I should be in jail." Some of his staunchest supporters now see the emperor without his clothes. For 15 years, Washington power broker Max Berry, a wealthy international trade lawyer, raised money and campaigned for Barry. Berry used to defend him. Today he gripes, "It's just a matter of time before the next thing hits. It's hard not to like...
...disappearance of his water glass, which he had earlier placed behind him. "It's just like an airport novel," muses a city official. "It's like the poor country boy who fights his way to the top and then becomes everything he's been fighting against." Like the emperor, Barry blindly marches...
...situation is still unpredictable. But one thing is clear the people are no longer the same people. They have laughed together at the emperor's new dress. It is difficult to fool or menace or manipulate them in the same old manner. Times have changed. A new chapter in Chinese history has started. Modern democracy, a manifest destiny, is moving from the west to the east. People have learned that, instead of yielding their power to a handful of people to act under their name against their will, they must take control of their own destinies...
...students have struck an ancient chord in Chinese history," explains Thomas Bernstein, a China scholar and chairman of Columbia University's political science department. "It is the idea of the scholar-official who remonstrates with the emperor about some evil in the kingdom that the ruler should put right. The emperor won't listen, and the scholar-official takes his own life as a witness, or sacrifice, to the higher good." By casting themselves in the role of the scholar-official, the students have become the bearers of that tradition...
...runs directly counter to any efforts at reform. It demands higher wages, stable prices and job security. In China efforts to decentralize decision making have resulted in economic anarchy as local authorities assumed the power to tax or even create money that citizens had earlier unquestioningly granted to the Emperor or Mao. And in all three countries housewives, unable to make the connection between higher prices and availability, complain about paying several times the old official prices for food that was never available at the government-set level...