Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...journalist has just left the young woman to her job, which is being a princess. They will not see each other again. The camera stays with him as he walks through the sepulchral rooms of some vast Roman palazzo, and his face shows everything: the loss, the melancholy, the love, the sweetness of feelings found fleetingly, then lost irretrievably...
...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." (History...
...enough people believe that on this day in the quiet town of Conyers (pop. 7,380) they received Mary's word, does it matter what anyone else, including the Roman Catholic Church, thinks about what they have seen...
...epidemics, warfare, ecological calamities, shifts in trade or social disorder. Calah, Tikal and Angkor are among the fabled places that disappeared into the sands or jungles of time. Surviving cities have undergone wild swings of fortune. Alexandria, Egypt, may have housed several hundred thousand people at its peak in Roman times, but when Napoleon entered it in 1798, it had shrunk to 4,000 souls. Since then, it has again boomed to nearly 3 million and faces grave ecological threats. The gleaming city that Arab poet Ibn Dukmak compared to "a golden crown, set with pearls, perfumed with musk...
...trademark elliptical phrases are also far more in evidence on this album, with oblique allusions in such lines as "Caligula would have blushed" ("Heaven Knows") and "I know how Joan of Arc felt as the flames rose to her roman nose and her Walkman started to melt ("Bigmouth Strikes Again...