Word: empress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looks, it feels, as if it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peep-show man." But movies were there to be tried, so she tried them. Perhaps the most intriguing of her films was the only one she ever made with both her brothers, Rasputin and the Empress. In 1936 she announced her retirement from the stage; scarcely a year later she was back on the boards in The Ghost of Yankee Doodle. In 1940 her portrayal of the wise, warmhearted schoolmistress in The Corn Is Green became her greatest triumph. Audiences still cheered her on to her familiar...
...accordance with tradition, the Emperor and Empress were barred from the wedding; they, like the rest of Japan, had to be satisfied with watching it on television. Nor did those present see much of the actual ceremony. Led by the white-robed Chief Ritualist, the little wedding procession quickly disappeared within the shrine. Crown Prince Akihito, wearing his saffron-yellow robes, was attended only by his grand chamberlain, a trainbearer, a Shinto priest, and another chamberlain carrying the 700-year-old sword, the symbol of Akihito's royal rank...
...sandwich. Michi had her hair washed and reset, and, over a white and gold Western dress, for the first time donned the pearl-studded, golden Order of the Sacred Crown. At 2 p.m. the young couple officially reported the marriage to the Emperor and Empress. After exchanging cups of sake and going through the ritual of symbolic eating, the prince and his bride stepped into a rust-colored carriage for the five-mile drive to his Eastern Palace-a shabby place, cluttered with clerks and files on the first floor, and no match for the luxurious home that Michiko...
...been few Joan of Arcs or Molly Pitchers in the annals of Japan. Even the brilliant Lady Murasaki, who wrote the famed Tale of Genji early in the 11th century, felt it necessary to conceal her accomplishments. The only heroic-sized woman known to the Japanese is the legendary Empress Jingo, who supposedly conquered Korea in A.D. 200-but Koreans indignantly assert that absence of records proves she never existed. Until 1923, Japanese law declared that "women, children and mental defectives shall not be associated with political activities...
...against God; a girl he loved when they were both children died before she reached adulthood.* The plot devices through which he is brought back to religion are soapy and soporific; it is enough to mention that Lucanus pays a call at the imperial court in Rome, where the Empress Julia, rouge-breasted and panting, urges him to orgy. But at the last minute, Lucanus begs off. whereupon nasty old Emperor Tiberius realizes that he is the first decent man to show up in Rome for years and gives Lucanus a dandy ring...