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...court ruled on Tuesday that "though representative of obscene concepts [and] of a sexual nature," that world-renowned 10-letter word is merely a "vulgar manifestation of irritation." The ruling overturned a verbal abuse conviction of a 60-year-old local politician in the central town of Aquila who had directed the expression at a political rival during a 1999 city council meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Va Fangul!... And Have a Nice Day | 7/17/2007 | See Source »

...scenery and props, they compensate with expressive stage movements that give the play the violent elegance of a bullfight. Even without taking a step, characters’ postures speak volumes: Aeneas (Colin Lane) looks every inch the shell-shocked military man, while Dido (Diane D’Aquila) transforms from self-possessed stateswoman to wounded animal...

Author: By Laura E. Kolbe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Taste of Ashes in 'Dido' | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

Drugs are one of the main sources of conflict in Columbia, said David Aquila Lawrence, a free-lance journalist for National Public Radio, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, the BBC and CNN for the past three years...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Discusses Reporting in Colombia | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...grain" to the universe. The radio signals emanating from Sextans seemed to have a higher magnitude of polarization than constellations at 90 degree angles. This led the team to conclude that Sextans lies along a universal axis which runs north to south through the earth and towards the constellation Aquila, although their data did not permit them to say which constellation is in the north and which is in the south. The finding may also provide a challenge to the "Big Bang" theory that says that the universe was born and expanded in a completely symmetrical fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Side Up | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

...also aren't convinced that D'Aquila, who has gone to the trouble of getting a court order and a gun to protect herself, would really offer her alcoholic husband a drink while protesting that she doesn't want to engage in "ennabling behavior." Every actor must ask themselves why they are in a room, but neither Willis or D'Aquila account for the fact that she's armed and he's bleeding and they aren't' on their way to the hospital. The formula dictates that these relationships create hard-to-break patterns...

Author: By Sarah M. Rose, | Title: Throbbing, Fantastic But Flaccid | 4/28/1994 | See Source »

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