Word: antonia
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...scriptural references. Discoveries of an astonishing variety of 1st century coins, for example, help explain the need for money changers, whom an angry Jesus drove away from Jerusalem's Great Temple. Still, there are many questions that archaeology cannot now answer. Did Pilate pass judgment on Jesus at the Antonia fortress near the Temple site, or at Herod's palace across town? (If the latter, then the famed Via Dolorosa--the route that Jesus followed carrying his cross to Golgotha--is incorrect.) Is the tomb of Jesus beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, as tradition holds, or some place...
...flap is less about the novel--a boisterous tale that Evelyn Waugh might have written were he resurrected as a Monty Python--than about Amis, 45, a best-selling writer undergoing some serious midlife changes. First, he left his well-bred, moneyed American wife of nine years, Antonia Phillips, 43 (with whom he has two sons, ages 8 and 10), for a younger American girlfriend. She is Isabel Fonseca, the financially robust, thirtyish daughter of Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca and granddaughter of the late New York philanthropist Jacob Kaplan...
Priest, directed by Antonia Bird, is sensational only in its content. At heart it is a TV drama with a one-track mind; Jimmy McGovern's script has no fewer than four scenes in which someone intrudes on a couple's sexual intimacy. Bird cues every emotion with spell-it-out reaction shots and a soupy sound track. What movie dares use You'll Never Walk Alone with no irony? Priest does, which is one reason why it leaves fat, hot tears on many spectators' faces. The film delivers on its promise to edify at any cost...
...need to separate the emotions and politics of the debate from the economic reality," said Antonia Hernandez, president and general counsel for the Mexican Defense fund...
...Antonia Vinueza, who voted at St. Francis Church hall last year, was told by one of the campaigns that she was supposed to vote at East End House. But when she arrived at East End House, election officials sent her to Miller River Apartments...