Word: roman
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Rechul will have a tough time getting by the second round, however. He will face Garrett Lowney, who is seeded first in the heavyweight division. Lowney is a freshman at Minnesota and won a bronze medal at the Syndey Olympics in Greco-Roman wrestling...
...hometown she left in disgrace some years before. One of the people she is supposed to kill is the only boy she ever loved (Glenn Fitzgerald), who is both "ex-gay" and dying of testicular cancer. Among others on her hit list are an E.R. nurse (Marylouise Burke) whose Roman Catholic piety seems somehow to reinforce her talent for murder and a teenage girl (Merritt Wever) whose mom and dad cheer on her depredations as if she were playing soccer and had a shot at a college scholarship...
...patients who claim to be the notorious Lucan. But she too is in hiding from a criminal past; her real name is Beate Pappenheim, a sham Bavarian stigmatic who, using her menstrual blood to simulate Christ's wounds on the cross, once extracted a small fortune from credulous Roman Catholics before vanishing into a new identity...
...Jason" fared poorly with both critics and the public. The market was glutted with dubbed, Grade-Z reworkings of Greek and Roman sagas, a cycle that began with the unexpected success of the campy Steve Reeves "Hercules" in 1959. But "Jason" has aged well, primarily because of its fine cast, incredible score and animated sequences that are still studied in film schools around the world. "The fight with the skeletons" is a phrase you will hear again and again when discussing the genre with experts, one of the best-ever examples of interaction between live actors and animated figures...
...opponents of cloning aren't feeling particularly calm - the Roman Catholic Church joined in a somewhat unlikely alliance with biomedical researchers and medical ethicists in voicing fierce aversion to the scientists' plans. "Those who made the atom bomb went ahead in spite of knowing about its terrible destruction," Bishop Elio Sgreccia, head of the John Paul II Institute for Bioethics, told Reuters Friday. "But this doesn't mean that it was the best choice for humanity...