Word: rota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WORK Violin Concerto Romeo and Juliet's theme by Mendelssohn by Nino Rota...
Morris beautifully orchestrates the four stories (helped by Caleb Sampson's music, which gaily purloins motifs from Nino Rota and Philip Glass). The film blends interview and location footage with clips from old movies and Super 8, black and white and color. As the styles merge, so do the stories. The real lions, the leaf elephants, the robot insects and the insectoid rodents overlap, abut, merge in a gorgeous fugue of hard work and abiding love. This is a funny, thrilling tribute to people's urge to find play and profundity in the work they...
...called the American annulment figures "a grave scandal." Robert Vasoli, author of the forthcoming book Tearing Asunder: Annulment American Style, says that on this issue, "the church in the U.S. is practically in schism with Rome." An overstatement, perhaps, but in 1994 Pope John Paul II warned the Roman Rota, the Vatican court to which Rauch Kennedy has appealed, against a "mistaken idea of compassion and mercy" that might cloud true justice...
Thomas Doran, who served on the Rota until he was made Bishop of Rockford, Ill., understands both sides. American Catholics live "with a divorce mentality," he says, and are bound to be affected by it. But they are also subject to Catholic canon law, which has always strictly carried out Jesus's teaching against divorce. Doran and his colleagues are in the middle. They would like to stem the annulment tide. "But the trouble," he sighs, "is that saying no is never an easy thing...
...Navy enlisted men and women, one lieutenant commander and at least one U.S. civilian were involved in an international drug-trafficking operation directed by Nigerian organized-crime barons. Five sailors have been convicted of drug-smuggling charges and are serving time in Italian prisons or the Navy brig in Rota, Spain. The rest are awaiting trial or further investigation...