Word: roland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GOOD BOOK: Eighty-one pages into 'THE GOOD Book' (Morrow; 383 pages; $25), his entertaining bid to grab serious Bible study back from the religious right, Peter Gomes quotes his guiding spirit: not St. Paul, Paul Tillich or scores of other cited exegetes, but obscure Yale historian and teetotaler Roland Bainton, who in 1958 defended his abstinence 'based on biblical principles (although) not based on biblical precepts or biblical practice.' Gomes applies this same distinction to biblical texts on slaves, Jews, women and homosexuals, explaining why each group?s persecution or exclusion, even if derived literally from Holy Writ, runs...
...Roland Shuck, deputy director of Tukafurlux, a Dutch-Ukranian joint venture fur company that now shies away from buying the pelts of Russian animals...
...Beth Roland, a domestic violence advocate and attorney at the Boston Law Firm of Mintz Levin, highlighted two parts of the crime bill advocated by Clinton that aided women--a provision to aid arrest and conviction of criminals who flee across country boundaries, and federal, as opposed to state, restraining orders...
...Shakur standing up through the sun roof. Four men rolled up in a white Cadillac, fired about 13 rounds, and sped away, losing the police in traffic. Knight told authorities his head was turned the other way at the key moment and he saw nothing. Said police spokesman Phil Roland: "We're puzzled that [his] whole entourage had their heads turned and didn't see anything...
...locations to the full, idiosyncratic thrill-value of each. These lead to striking shots of a desert near a military base and several confused urban crowd scenes. In the beginning of other sequences, the screen bursts into white, as July 4th draws nigh. The story, written by director Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, has a handy way of faithfully returning to the bits of exposition and information dropped along the way. The drunken pilot (Randy Quaid) whom we see being teased early on for his supposed alien encounters eventually gets his just dues...