Word: raoul
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...some of the seminal ideas in the nature of quantum mechanics and relativity," said Raoul Bott, Graustein professor of mathematics and former master of Dunster House...
...King Louis XIV, a philandering and utterly obnoxious young man, and his secret twin brother Phillipe. Phillipe has been locked up in a dungeon for the last six years with an iron mask on his face to conceal his identity. When Louis sends ex-Musketeer Athos' (John Malkovich) son Raoul (Peter Sarsgaard) back to war so that he can pursue his betrothed Christine (Judith Godreche) and he is killed, Athos calls on his old comrades Aramis (Jeremy Irons), now a priest; Porthos (Gerard Depardieu) and D'Artagnan (Gabriel Byrne) to help him in getting revenge against the King. While Aramis...
...movie. Parillaud, as Queen Anne, does passably well. Godreche, however, seems to have decided that she could just relax during the movie, which results in amazingly bad acting at certain points. In bed with Louis, for example, Christine is feeling guilty because she has just received a letter from Raoul, her late fiance. Reproaching herself for having become the mistress of a man she does not love, Godreche attempts to rant melodramatically about her "sins," but does not have enough energy to even do that convincingly, looking away from DiCaprio as if that would distract her from spitting...
...bodyguards and occasionally a third who scouts the road for gawkers. To relax, he listens to jazz, takes walks in the country and indulges in a daily cigar. But his consuming passion is his wife, Nane, a lawyer and accomplished painter and the niece of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II. "They've forged a real partnership," says their friend, author Kati Marton. "I never had the sense she was particularly ambitious for him. But she's immensely proud of what's happened...
With information from "Autobiographical Sketches & Autobiographical Fragments" by Raoul Bott...