Word: romane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detecting and convicting and exposing the idolatry of the Roman Church, their tyranny, usurpations, damnable heresies, fatal errors, abominable superstitions, and other crying wickednesses in their high places; and finally, to show that the Church of Rome is that mystical Babylon, that woman of sin, that apostate church spoken of in the New Testament...
Brian, Christ's next-door neighbor as a toddler, grows up to hate the Roman oppressors, and joins a group of Judaean terrorists. He raids Pilate's palace with them, gets caught, and is sentenced to crucifixion by the proconsul, whose speech impediment undermines his pomp ("Bwian, you awe sentenced to cwucifixion...
...flocked to Venice from north of the Alps as well as from other centers in Italy, and this gave an eclectic tone to Venetian art. With no dominant brush to impose its presence, as Titian's had, almost anything went -remnants of international mannerism. Venetian color, quotations from Roman or Flemish Baroque, borrowings from the new realism of Caravaggio and his great Spanish follower, Ribera. The city was visited by geniuses, like the young Rubens; but its art colony consisted mainly of third-rate painters turning out ragged marsh peasants, holy Virgins with the rolling eyeballs of mad colts...
...restoration experts, after preliminary checks, reported no significant damage to the Leaning Tower, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, St. Peter's Basilica and other ancient buildings in Rome and the Vatican...
...have thought the Dalai Lama would be at St. Patrick's Cathedral?" marveled Newsman Lowell Thomas, 87, who brought Tibet's onetime leader international fame after visiting Lhasa in 1949. But last week there he was, with Terence Cardinal Cooke, speaking in New York City's Roman Catholic landmark. A smiling, maroon-robed holy man, the Dalai Lama is regarded by millions of Tibetans as the incarnation of one of the most powerful and beloved Buddhist divinities...