Word: romane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caligula has had all the success of an open-air orgy in Antarctica. First, Writer Gore Vidal quarreled with Director Tinto Brass and was barred from the movie's sets in Rome. Next to exit was Actress Maria Schneider, who called the film biography of the Roman emperor "a grotesque pornographic movie," and walked out after a day's shooting. "For an enormous amount of money they're asking people to prostitute themselves. I was ready and willing to act, but not to take my clothes off and do whatever they wanted me to," she complained. Enter...
Besides that, the decision opens a new breach between Anglicans and the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. In August, during the most substantial international Anglican-Orthodox talks in years, the Orthodox theologians decreed that women priests would be "a very serious obstacle" to improved relations. Responding to the vote. Father Nicon Patrinacos of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America said the "letter of the law" prevents the Orthodox from consulting with a church whose order differs from their own. Thus world Or thodoxy must now debate whether ecumenical talks can proceed...
Twenty percent of its population are black. The other 80% are an amalgam of mint-julep aristocrats out of Faulkner's Sartoris clan, Mexican Americans from Texas, Roman Catholic Cajuns in Louisiana, Cubans and Jews in Miami, Vietnamese resettled on the Gulf Coast and Anglo-Saxon Baptists everywhere...
Evangelicals flourish in many parts of the country, but nowhere are they more identified with the prevailing religious culture than in the South. Perhaps 20 million of the South's 32 million Protestants are evangelicals,* as opposed to 5.5 million Roman Catholics and only 500,000 Jews...
...instead of a reformer. Heflins have been in the state for six generations; the judge's late uncle, Cotton Tom Heflin, a populist turned black-baiting U.S. Senator (1920-31), was drummed out of the Democratic Party in 1928 for attacking Presidential Nominee Al Smith as "the Roman candidate." Young Howell went to Birmingham Southern College, served as a Marine officer in World War II and still has a stiff right thumb from machine-gun wounds suffered on Guam. After graduating from the University of Alabama Law School in 1948, he opened an office in Tuscumbia. His first month...