Word: rome
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...slab in our experience has anything like her laugh, which is the musical kind you might expect from a woman born in Baton Rouge, La., one whose taste is stately enough to embrace the 19th century Japanese camera portrait but frisky enough to approve paparazzi shots from the Rome of La Dolce Vita. All the same, she's forceful when she needs to be and cunning when the occasion calls for it. When your job requires you to borrow pictures from collectors who might hate to let them out of their sight, or to beat the competition in organizing...
...perfectly happy to accept the fact that Rome was not built in a day. So why, scientists wonder, do we cling so desperately to the idea that stem cell miracles are just around the corner...
...storm, spangled herself in gold and bent powerful men to her will. In other words, we think of her as Elizabeth Taylor. "Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth" would have us remember her first as the sober-minded and politically adroit monarch who confronted the growing might of Rome. Following a highly successful run at the British Museum in London, this show brings its ancient treasures and new insights to Chicago's Field Museum. In statuary of the 1st century B.C., Cleopatra is voluptuous but coldly imperial. In pornography produced by her enemies she is a harlot coupling with...
...couple of sound people and a van and a camera and a producer and an on-camera correspondent to stand outside the Miami relatives' house and yak solemnly about how Elian came out this morning to play on the jungle gym. Close the bureaus in Rome, Moscow, Paris, and Tokyo. All you need to cover these stories is a few laptops and some rooms at the Holiday...
...least one other superior receiving similar orders complied. Vladimiroff flew to Rome to discuss the issue. She returned unswayed, and on the night before Chittister's departure for Ireland, Vladimiroff handed her a letter--co-signed by 127 of Mount St. Benedict's 128 active nuns--stating that she would not relay the command. The grounds: Mount St. Benedict is run on a model of "co-responsibility" rather than a "superior-subordinate" model, and prayerful consensus did not support the travel ban. "Silencing is inappropriate. It's patronizing and treats adults as children," Vladimiroff told TIME. "I cannot ask myself...