Word: carpathian
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...Farrell, who looks overwhelmed and diminished by the burden of carrying an epic movie on his bulked-up shoulders. Jolie, however, is right at home as his mother. A sorceress lolling among snakes--the sexiest Gorgon, whose stare melts the screen--she spits out seductive invectives in a crypto-Carpathian accent; Olympias may be Philip's wife, but she is Dracula's daughter. And Jolie inhabits her with an awful grandeur. The archetypal housewife furious at her husband's philandering, she tells Philip, "In my womb I carried my avenger." Jolie's real vengeance is to invade the film...
...week, the Chancellor makes another war-related pilgrimage, this time to Romania. Sixty years ago, his father, Fritz, a lance corporal in the Wehrmacht, was killed and buried with eight other German soldiers in a communal grave in the tiny village of Ceanu Mare, in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains. Gerhard, his only son, is scheduled to visit the grave on Thursday. Until four years ago, Schröder didn't even know the grave existed. His older sister, Gunhild, found the site's location through state records. Fritz Schröder was a 27-year-old manual laborer...