Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million casino in Las Vegas, the Mirage, is the biggest moneymaker on the Strip, at least in part because patrons come to see the man-made volcano out front that erupts at night every 15 minutes, the sharks swimming behind the registration desk, the white tigers lounging below Roman columns in their glass cage and the dolphins in the seaquarium. His new Treasure Island casino, to open in October, will re-create at hourly intervals a cannon fight between two battleships and offer a permanent home to the elegant Cirque du Soleil. If Wynn gets his way, he will...
...booming like an earthquake from a sound system clearly meant to emulate its subject and raise the dead. On the 72-ft. by 52-ft. stage in front of the film, 12 barefoot Apostles in russet rags were running away from a dwarf wielding a big, white feather and Roman soldiers dressed like Darth Vader. Across the arena, in a distracting reminder of secularity, a vast glowing sign touted the spirituous appeal of Bud Light. At the audience's feet lay crumbs from loaves passed, in keeping with the biblical parable, by dewy- eyed cast members. "Share," they intoned...
...show has the quasi-official cooperation of the Roman Catholic Church: the English text is by Monsignor Michael Wrenn, special consultant for religious education to John Cardinal O'Connor. But it is also being marketed to Protestant denominations. To cover all bases, the program includes a statement from the Anti-Defamation League noting the history of anti-Semitism in passion plays and saluting the "message of tolerance" conveyed by the tour's U.S. packager, Radio City Music Hall Productions. The 58-member cast includes several agnostics and Muslims, according to Jean Marie Lamour, 29, who plays Christ. But, he adds...
...also an artist at work." The author, though, has a splendid eye for culinary trivia. In the Germanic dukedom of Saxony, noblemen who illicitly married commoners were punished by being force-fed pepper until they died. The builders of Egypt's pyramids were paid off in onions. The Roman scholar Pliny was startled by the high retail prices of the Eternal City -- "Have times really changed?" the author asks -- and believed that the odor of garlic would repel scorpions...
...culminates a three-year campaign by the Roman Catholic Church against the abortion on demand that flourished for three decades under communism. Women's groups and a liberal wing of the anticommunist Solidarity movement, among others, opposed the severity of the curb. The church hierarchy, supported by Pope John Paul II, pushed for a total ban. Walesa, an abortion foe, opted to sign the new law as the best way to end quarreling...