Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dalai Lama's very refusal to be dictatorial and his calm assurance that Tibetan Buddhist centers, unlike their Roman Catholic counterparts, "have no central authority" and are "all quite independent" have left him somewhat powerless as all kinds of questionable things are done in the name of his philosophy (a prominent lama was slapped with a $10 million sexual-harassment suit in California). And his wish to make peace among the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism has so infuriated a few that earlier this year three members of his inner circle were found murdered in their beds, apparently...
...local chapter of Women, Infants and Children (WIC) gives Ocon coupons that she can trade in at area grocery stores for bread, milk, cereal and cheese. And St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church charges Ocon $1 in return for a bag of groceries...
...that the majority of Harvard students are capable of making choices without the help of its daily paper. Harvard students should be praised for their independence of thought, not questioned as to the state of their conscience. The Crimson editors should learn to accept defeat gracefully and without condescension. --Roman Altshuler...
Eight white Roman pillars anchor the building, while wood-paneling of a mahogany tone outlines the horseshoe shape of the interior...
...would be nice to describe this as a flimsy pretext for a batch of Simon gag lines, except that the gags are too lame even for Simon in a nostalgic haze. One character is a boorish Italian stud with a penchant for malapropisms (he calls Roman gladiators "gladiolas"), and the play's comic piece de resistance is, so help me, a bird's funeral. Simon, like Mamet, is content to trot out his characters two at a time for a series of unfulfilling, barely connected dialogues...