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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young Roman, Hero, loves a pretty virgin, Philia, who, alas, is sold to an army captain. The job of finagling her away falls to the young man's personal slave who hopes to gain his freedom by getting the girl. Boisterous Psuedolus does his best for his master Hero in the face of inumerable obstacles--Hero's horny but performance-conscious father, the virgin's scruples about... wine, the bumbling transvestitism of a slave in cahoots. His retreat-ridden advance to freedom is the center of the musical...
...momentum was gaining on the other side. William Cardinal Conway, Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland, said in a radio broadcast that he would like to ask MacStiofáin, "What right have you to say, against the manifest feeling of the Irish people as a whole, that this [violence] should go on?" Londonderry M.P. John Hume, a leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, judged that "a solution can be negotiated now without shedding another drop of Irish blood." Derry units of the I.R.A. felt compelled to call a "Tell-the-People" meeting to explain their policies...
...perfect as that, eleven years ago, of Resnais and the French author Alain Robbe-Grillet, in the creation of Last Year at Marienbad. Filmmaking, of course, has always made strange bedfellows: as different as the American father of Spiderman is from the French creator of the "nouveau roman", and as different as both of these are from the novelist Marguerite Duras, who wrote the script for Hiroshima Mon Amour. Resnais has affinities with all three...
...their own, such as the Jews of the Caucasus, the Cochin Jews of India, the black Falasha Jews of Ethiopia, and an indigenous population in Italy that dates back more than 2,000 years. Though the Italian Jews have often prospered, their numbers are now diminishing through intermarriage with Roman Catholics...
These statements and many other things, among them new and remarkable sayings from the lips of Jesus, appear in an ancient papyrus lately unearthed in the ruins of a Roman villa at Ostia Antica. The papyrus is a copy of the legendary "Q Document," the source book for the four Gospels, as well as a new account of Jesus' life written by his brother James. Its existence is known only to the small group of scholars who have prepared the translation and to a few wealthy men who are financing publication of a Bible containing the new revelations...