Word: roman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crash that killed Sophie's parents and brother. He also manages an exemplarily creepy exchange between Tautou and Bettany, which for a moment raises the stakes to the level of personal affront. But these signs of violent life are rare. The flashbacks to the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages (shot in desaturated color) look both expensive and perfunctory - words that sum up the film...
...They simply object to wild extrapolations beyond observable limits of genetic variability. Don't hide behind the cloak of science when it's clear that you're an evolution evangelist. Dwayne Spies Chilliwack, Canada Opus Dei and Faith Thank you very much for your objective reporting on the controversial Roman Catholic society Opus Dei [April 24]. I have been a supernumerary member for 13 years, and I am still struggling to do my work well in order to please God. Are we conservative? Well, if you consider Opus Dei's efforts to conserve the core values of Christ's ministry...
...Brown's The Da Vinci Code granted fans access to a thrillingly fictionalized Opus Dei. Our story on the reality of the Roman Catholic group inspired readers' aversion, wonder and defense...
...Aboriginal art is its own wildly independent spirit. In this way, the founder of Sotheby's Aboriginal art department in Australia, Tim Klingender, likens its appeal to that of world music. "I don't think it is part of the continuing tradition of Western art which begins in Greco-Roman times and goes through the Renaissance and ultimately terminates in Postmodernism," says Klingender. "It has cross-cultural appeal. It has an aesthetic which relates to Modernism at times, yet it is infused with a language from a most ancient and diverse culture...
...Berlusconi, Italy's former Premier, who last month lost his bid for re-election after five years in office. But Moretti's entry at the 59th Cannes Film Festival, which opens this week, isn't a documentary. Instead, it is a fictional rendering that displays the 52-year-old Roman director's power to push at the walls separating film and reality, moviemaker and spectator, without suffocating in cleverness or self-indulgence. Moretti's knack for knowing the boundaries of melodrama earned him best directing honors at Cannes for his 1993 Caro Diario (Dear Diary) and the 2001 Palme...