Word: empress
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...waiter remarked that she said this in the same tone that one would use to say, "You have to get on this helicopter out of Saigon right now." He still hesitated, pondering whether he should leave the not-hot-enough milk in case somebody else wanted it. Just as Empress Jennifer entered the room after her shower, the waiter was shoved out the door. "Everyone seems very concerned about the milk," he mumbled before heading into the kitchen...
...names Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Caliban and Sycorax for five moons of Uranus make sense, since the planet's other moons are mostly named for characters in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Even a moonlet called Petit-Prince is defensible, since it orbits the asteroid Eugenia--and the son of Empress Eugenie and Napoleon III had that rather literal name...
...DIED. EMPRESS DOWAGER NAGAKO, 97, widow of Japanese Emperor Hirohito and mother of reigning Emperor Akihito; at Tokyo's royal palace. She married Hirohito in 1924 and became Empress in 1926. Born a princess, Nagako reportedly had cool relations with daughter-in-law Michiko, the current Empress and the first commoner to marry a Japanese Crown Prince...
...During his teen years, Egoyan worked at the ritzy Empress Hotel in Victoria, an experience he often likens to the art of filmmaking. "Both the hotel business and the film business are concerned with creating and sustaining illusions," he explains. "In a hotel, you make up a room and create a place that is supposed to be reminiscent of a home. And a hotel staff function much like actors do, putting on a performance of serving people." Indeed, the world of hotels functions prominently in two of his films--Speaking Parts and The Adjuster. Although being a busboy...