Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Born Nov. 30 in Oxfordshire, England 1911-15, 1939-40 First Lord of the Admiralty 1940-45, 1951-55 Prime Minister of Britain 1964 Retires 1965 Dies in London...
First, some background. We were devolving here, "Lord of the Flies"-style, a platoon of 59 punks, most just out of high school but some with wives and lives and jobs, who had come to the Army for a fatherly whipping and instead had gotten Kafka's castle - a supposedly all-knowing, all-seeing complete shambles of a bureaucracy that couldn't even be bothered to take us for an occasional...
...September, the chunky young auteur faced a packed house at the Toronto Film Festival and smiled. "We're here tonight," Kevin Smith said, "and lightning has not struck the building. So I guess it's O.K. with the Lord." Smith, 29, had endured a rough six months, ever since the Catholic League, a lay group with 350,000 members and an intimidating letterhead, had pressured the Walt Disney Co. and its subsidiary Miramax Films to drop Dogma, Smith's rambunctious comedy about God, faith and a monster made of poop. Smith was able to make his movie freely...
Smith has already done that by raising profound issues in a pop context, bringing God to the mallrats, making a good movie. That should be O.K. with the Lord...
Locked away from the world (and, it should be noted, the dangers of childbirth and the bubonic plague), Virginia became Sister Maria Celeste. She served the church and the man she addressed in her letters as "Most Illustrious Lord Father." Her surviving correspondence, translated and smoothly integrated by Sobel, ranges from heretical observations of the heavens to the mundane details of housekeeping...