Word: opus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Films, of course, can still do a thing or two that haunted houses can't: develop elaborate story lines, depict complex emotions, lift the audience by means other than hydraulics. Species, written by Dennis Feldman, does some of that, at least in its first hour. This sci-fi horror opus also has the summer's sexiest High Concept: Alien meets The Fugitive. The escaped monster is on the prowl for a mate in Los Angeles--and she's babe-a-licious...
...opus on evolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett is inevitably taking the second path; while he professes genuine respect for Philosophy and Meaning, he has no patience for those who cling to them rather than face the truth about evolution. And while he is sanguine about the prospect of reconstituting philosophy on the basis of Darwinism, his attempts to do so in the present book are far from reassuring...
...liberal socialist, atheist and nonconformist. He spent six months in the dungeons of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar at the request of Francisco Franco, who was excoriated in Torga's A Criacao do Mundo (1939), which contained a description of post-civil war Spain. In 1941 Torga began his magnum opus Diario, 16 volumes of reflections on his life and times. ``I fought against age, I fought against men, I fought against God, I fought against myself,'' he wrote. ``I have one consolation: although defeated, I was able to reach the end of the adventure in the purity with which...
Leafing through the Babylonian Talmud recently--you know, that famously racist, sexist and God only knows what else Aramaic magnum opus--I came across this timely meditation: "A court which sentences to death one person every 70 years is deemed blood-thirsty...
John Paul's dissatisfaction with some of the church's traditional priestly operatives -- like the Jesuits, whom he perceived until recently as becoming too liberal -- has led him to encourage lay Catholic movements such as Opus Dei. (Papal spokesman Navarro is a member.) He has declared this controversial organization a personal prelature, which means that it is exempt from the jurisdiction of local bishops and reports directly to Rome. The Pope has also given warm encouragement to a new religious order, the Legionaries of Christ, which some conservatives see as a replacement for the Jesuits of old. Members...