Word: benito
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...Fathers in Los Reyes, Mexico, are no exception to the rule: underneath the deceptively untroubled surface of this bucolic community seethes a mass of corruption. As revealed by the local newspaper, Father Benito (Sancho Gracia), the aging parish priest, has been fraternizing with drug lords in order to finance a new hospital, and Father Natalio (Damian Alcazar) has been assisting guerilla troops...
...Father Amaro run the gamut from agony to ecstasy, and often they fluctuate dizzyingly between the two. What happens in between, however, allows us to glimpse a reflection of human nature: The film may be melodramatic, but it exposes the complex monstrosities that are ourselves. According to Father Benito, laundered drug money, once it passes through the hands of the priests, is bad money that turns good. The Crime of Father Amaro, once it passes through the capable hands of director Carlos Carrera, is the bad movie that turns good...
...Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, one of baseball's acknowledged brains, nearly burned out his laptop trying to neutralize Bonds. In the eighth inning of the series' fourth game, he put Bonds on first with no one on base and the score tied 2-2. The next batter, catcher Benito Santiago, hit a home run that won the game. Bonds' presence destroyed the Cardinals in that contest...
Benjamin J. Toff ’05, a Crimson editor, is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. He has recently earned the nickname Benito Mussolini from his campers for his dictatorial discipline enforcement, although on his days off, he can be found fearfully hiding from them in dark corners of the University of Denver campus...
...which reigned over all of Italy after the country was unified in 1870, fell in disgrace at the end of World War II after King Victor Emmanuel III's support for dictator Benito Mussolini. Barred since 1947 by the Italian Constitution from setting foot in Italy, the Savoy male heirs may soon be permitted to return home. They'll find their ancestral city has been whipped into shape...