Word: romane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directed the execution of 335 Italian hostages as reprisal for the killing of 33 Nazi occupation police in Rome, Kappler became known as "the Hangman of the Ardeatine Caves." He was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Italian military court in 1948 but was transferred to a Roman hospital in 1976 for cancer treatment. He weighed only 105 Ibs. when his wife smuggled him out of the hospital in a suitcase last August, spiriting him away to West Germany, which refused to extradite him since that country's constitution prohibits turning over a citizen for foreign prosecution...
When Pippin the idealist realizes that running the Holy Roman Empire isn't quite as easy as he had originally imagined, he rues the murder. Again, the play refuses to take itself too seriously. "You got it," a character tells Pippin, and Charles gets up off the floor, pulling the dagger from his back...
...find it ironic and pitiable that the Senate majority leader "wouldn't enjoy going away and doing nothing." For I concur with the Roman statesman Cicero, who said, "He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing...
Quebec's claim to a distinct identity has for centuries made it Canada's problem child. Novelist MacLennan described the historical relationship between French-and English-speaking Canadians as "the two solitudes." Roman Catholic, French-speaking, stamped by a different culture and tradition, the mostly rural Quebecois lived a separate life from that of the province's Protestant, English-speaking minority, which centered its activities around Montreal and the nearby Eastern Townships. For the Anglophone elite, the hub of Quebec life was Montreal's fashionable Sherbrooke Street, within easy distance of the banks and big businesses that they dominated almost...
...clash and carryings-on over Soap aside, television's instant-history movies have been the season's most hotly debated entertainment. When ABC let loose with its twelve-hour Watergate roman à clef, Washington: Behind Closed Doors, last fall, half the critics and columnists in the country attacked the mini-series for playing fast and loose with recent political fact. Then the same network aired a so-called docudrama, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, to even harsher criticism. Now NBC and CBS are getting ready to take their lumps. King, a six-hour miniseries consecrated...