Word: ests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Piers the ancient Gnostic beliefs became central. With a scholar friend, he linked the Gnostics' world-scorning pessimism with the still mysterious downfall of the Knights Templar. The Templars flourished as a chivalric order during the Crusades, eventually becoming one of the strong est financial, military and political forces in Europe, only to be swept away abruptly in the 14th century by the Inquisition on unconvincing charges of heresy and sexual deviation...
Looking resplendent in furs, Sophia Loren, 40, went skiing in France's Haute-Savoie with Husband Carlo Ponti, 61, and sons Cipì, 6, and Dodo, 2. Sophia avoided going downhill, however, preferring cross-country, and did so well that she extracted praise from her instructor. "Comme elle est belle," an onlooker was heard to say, more in tribute to Sophia than to her skiing. The rest of the family cautiously kept off the slopes. Après-ski, Cipì was Mama's favorite escort, going so far as to take Sophia to a restaurant for fondue...
...truth. The heroin is as shackling a possession as the bag of gold in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale. Indeed, it is worse. Chaucer's three thieves at least thought that the gold was benign. Their catastrophe stemmed from disregarding Christian doctrine: radix malorum est cupiditas (greed is the root of all evil). Without a moral compass, Stone's characters cannot even plead ignorance. The irony that the heroin's value is rooted in its destructiveness does not escape them, but they cannot drop it. Its force has irradiated their world. They know...
...Guerre Est Finie, Friday and Saturday...
...automatically reviewable by the court. One example: impeachment. Chicago's Kurland put the point neatly when he noted that the opinion "says no more than 'the President cannot assert that he is the law, because we are the law.' L 'état, c 'est nous...