Word: rocco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chaplain Boyd attributes the growth of these cells to a feeling widespread among believers that to find true Christianity and meaningful social involvement they must go beyond traditional churches, which are controlled by "bish ops with price tags all over their bodies." Jesuit Sociologist Rocco Caporale of the University of California sees the underground church as a return to the personalized "mystery dimension" of early Christianity and a reaction to the massive, corporate impersonality of institutionalized parishes...
Last Tuesday the Suffolk County (Boston) Grand Jury indicated four men, one of them the alleged head of the local Cosa Nostra, on charge of conspiracy to murder Rocco DiSeglio in June...
...Sharon King as Marcellene was controlled on pitch but was easily overpowered by any of the other soloists. Freshman phenomenon David Ripley acquitted the part of Don Fernando valiantly but seemed to be worrying too much about getting all the notes to do anything with them. Gregory Sandow as Rocco was well, embarrassing. Sandow is one of those rare examples of a ham with stage fright. His singing is at once precious and stiff. His main problem is that he tries too hard, and his efforts to be expressive lead him to forcing and frequent lapses of taste...
What do Archibald Lee Wright, Walker Smith, Rocco Francis Marchegiano, Arnold Raymond Cream, Joseph Louis Barrow and Carmine Tilelli have in common with Cassius Marcellus Clay? They all were boxing champions who preferred to be known by their aliases* rather than by their proper names. The resemblance ends in the general vicinity of the mouth...
Sandra. "These shadows . . . the sifting of ashes of a dead past." Thus whisper the winds of melancholy around a decaying palazzo in the Tuscan town of Volterra, where Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers, The Leopard) installs Claudia Cardinale as resident tragedienne. In Visconti's modern variations on the Electra theme, Claudia struggles with a role that requires her, at times, to slip off the mantle of Greek tragedy and slip into something like a bath towel...