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...unlikely that his predecessors' fate was closing in on Beria.* The thin man with the bourgeois pince-nez was still alternate on the all-powerful Politburo, a vice chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, a marshal of the Soviet Union. Last fortnight he was nominated for re-election to the Supreme Soviet on a special list of handicappers' choices which also includes Candidates Stalin and Molotov. A native of Georgia like his boss, whom he once lionized in an apple-polishing history, Beria joined the C.H.E.K.A...
...Sunday night after his resignation, Charles de Qaulle spent hours alone in his study at the Neuilly villa. At 2 a.m. a few watchers saw his long, pencil-thin silhouette at his lighted bedroom window. For a long time he gazed into the night...
...Gillray masked their acid realism with ribaldry, spared little that was worth debunking. Nymphs were turned into hoydens, generals into cannibalistic monsters, politicians into poisonous toadstools. The plump Duke of Norfolk was pictured lying on a table like an apple dumpling, Tom Paine was made to look as thin and mean as a sharp knife, the Royal Georges were shown with the complacently stupid expressions of goldfish, and Lord Nelson's beautiful mistress, Lady Hamilton, was portrayed as a coarse, fat, dowdy Dido (see cut), mourning among the souvenirs of her lover's Nile victory, when he sailed...
...Emperor' Hiromichi (meaning Way of the Great Heart) is 56, unwrinkled, smooth-shaven from crown to chin except for a thin, reddish mustache. He lives incognito as a shopkeeper in the back room of a shabby general store on the outskirts of a bombed-out city. On his black kimono he wears the 16-petaled chrysanthemum forbidden to any but the Emperor of Japan. On his feet are a farmer's wooden geta. He is a devout Buddhist...
...Young Ryder was not surprised when beautiful Lady Julia made noises like "a thin bat's squeak of sexuality" and became engaged to a rich Canadian, who gave her a tortoise with her initials set in diamonds on its shell. He was not surprised when his good friend Sebastian took to drinking on the sly. "My dear, such a sot," said Anthony Blanche. "Sip sip, sip like a dowager, all day." But when Ryder visited Brideshead, the magnificent family mansion, he was astonished to find that "religion predominated in the house," that the family diversified its sins with daily...