Word: rome
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...prospects of the Anglican Church of North America are difficult to gauge. A faction in one of the new dioceses has muddied things by opposing the Denver consecration service and calling for reunion with Rome. The church has only about 100 parishes and 10,000 members, v. 2.9 million for the Episcopal Church. But the rebels predict quick growth now that bishops are in place and have set a goal of 100,000 members by midyear. Says Robert S. Morse of Oakland, Calif, one of the new bishops: "We will, in 50 years, be the only Episcopal Church...
...ficus trees lining the street seem to be part of a grand design by Potemkin. Still, the veteran spendthrift arriving on Rodeo Drive has a sense of déjà vu. No, the street does not possess the discreet elegance of Paris' Rue du Faubourg-St.-Honoré, the stylishness of Rome's Via Condotti or the hustling excitement of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. But the very rich find most of the store names cozy and familiar: Courrèges, Fred Joaillier, Gucci, Hermes. Bally, Céline, Ted Lapidus, Bilari, Nazareno Gabrielli, Battaglia, Mille Chemises, Omega, Saint-Germain, Pierre Deux and Lothars...
ROCK'S NEW WAVE is a broad and diverse movement, encompassing all sorts of bizarre and seemingly apocalyptic visions. Listeners, in fact are often tempted to make comparisons to the Fall of Rome--in the time honored introductory Social Studies fashion--when confronted with the sight of a man being paid to molest a party doll while wearing Alligator Baggies, and other assorted fun and games...
...none of its wit, passion or eroticism. Giancarlo Giannini, looking understandably enervated, is back again as a macho Italian Communist; this time his sexual-political antagonist is the terminally weepy Candice Bergen, who plays his radical-chic American wife. A good part of the action unfolds in their fashionable Rome apartment on a very long, very rainy night during their marriage's tenth year. The couple are feuding, of course: about the fate of the revolution and their relationship, about her desire for independence and his ideologically hypocritical sexism. Since Wertmuller's ability to equivocate...
What persuaded the late oil billionaire J. Paul Getty to pay $2.9 million in ransom for his kidnaped grandson Eugene Paul Getty II was the 17-year-old's right ear. His Calabrian kidnapers had cut it off and mailed it to a Rome newspaper with threats of further mutilations. Last week young Getty, now 21, was working in Southern California on documentary films and no longer self-conscious about that ear. A new ear of tissues taken from his own body is in process of being sculpted at Stanford University Medical Center...