Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since then Eszterhas has sold various ideas that could end up making him more than $10 million over the next two years, among them a $3.4 million script about mobster John Gotti. In addition, he has written a TV commercial for Chanel No. 5 that was directed by Roman Polanski, and he is mulling over a possible move into theater...
...girls. "Everybody called us that," says Nan. Five born in seven years. Joanne was Daddy's girl, at least that's what the others claimed. Barb had red hair and matching temper. "Little Nan" was timid and quiet. Then came Sue, then Mary, the baby. They lived a classic Roman Catholic postwar childhood: their father, a bandleader, easygoing and affectionate; his wife a stern but loving homemaker; new outfits, with bonnets, each Easter; the strict, black-and-white doctrine of the Baltimore Catechism. Ice skating at the church rink. Splitting the work after supper, one girl clearing, one washing...
...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." (History...
Northerners opposed to slavery cited it as a factor in the fall of the Roman republic, while Southerners said the decline of slavery led to the decline of empire, he said...
Unlike battles between ancient Roman gladiators, modern sports competition does not vanquish the defeated forever. Today's loser might be tomorrow's winner, and vice versa...