Another week slouching toward Gomorrah — I mean, heading toward the election.
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In July 1943, allied bombers began an aerial bombing campaign, Operation Gomorrah.
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"Zerozerozero" (eight episodes Friday on Amazon Prime Video) shares some DNA with "Gomorrah": It's also based on a book by the Italian journalist Roberto Saviano, and two of its creators, Stefano Sollima and Leonardo Fasoli, are "Gomorrah" alums.
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So here you have Sodom and Gomorrah bowing to the great Christian God.
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"It's not like we're trying to recreate Sodom and Gomorrah," a main backer said.
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Life is bleak in "Gomorrah," the popular Italian series about the underbelly of Naples.
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"Gomorrah" the TV show, which makes its United States debut on SundanceTV on Wednesday, Aug.
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"We don't need Sodom and Gomorrah," read some signs, and some protesters wielded stinging nettles.
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Into this maw strides Roseanne, once derided as evidence of a society slouching toward Gomorrah.
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Saviano's book "Gomorrah" was made into a bracing episodic film in 2009 by Matteo Garrone.
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Saviano's book "Gomorrah" was made into a bracing episodic film in 2009 by Matteo Garrone.
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"Gomorrah" has many fans in Sanità and around the world, but not in Naples City Hall.
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And "Gomorrah" begins a bloody second season as Neapolitan crime lords take it to the mat.
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Fandango is also among the producers of "Gomorrah," based on Roberto Saviano's book on the Neapolitan mafia.
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To one such heckle of "Remember Sodom and Gomorrah," Buttigieg responded, "Thank you" as the audience laughed.
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Mr. Handoko said Judge Tarigan recounted the story of Sodom and Gomorrah at one of his hearings.
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"Unfortunately, like in Sodom and Gomorrah, some good people got swept up with the bad," Hirschhorn said.
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Lot and his family become the sole survivors of their city when God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Some posts were Bible passages referencing Sodom and Gomorrah; others were focused on the threat from radical Islam.
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Chansa grew up in Chibolya, a poor Lusaka township which one Zambian journalist recently likened to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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ROME — Roberto Saviano's best-selling 2007 book, "Gomorrah," his reportage about the Neapolitan crime syndicate the Camorra, was dark.
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Even during "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" I nodded along politely while Festival Hall reenacted Sodom and Gomorrah.
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The decades-long makeover of the neighborhood, from a convivial Gomorrah to an outpost of Disneyland, couldn't dislodge the place.
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Roberto Saviano is the author of "Gomorrah," a book about the Neapolitan mafia, and "ZeroZeroZero," about the global cocaine trade.
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It was depicted as a Piranesian hellhole in Gomorrah, the 2008 film based on the workings of the Camorra in Naples.
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Roberto Saviano, author of the bestselling book "Gomorrah" about the Naples mafia, said De Luca's words were "vulgar and mafia-like".
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The book's biggest failing, however, is that, like the TV series inspired by "Gomorrah", it implies the Camorra runs Naples undisturbed.
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The Bay Area can often seem like a Gomorrah where the fire just makes everyone sexy-sweaty instead of charring them.
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"This won't be a place for nuns, but it's not like we're trying to recreate Sodom and Gomorrah," Mr. Morata said.
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That's the opening scene of "Gomorrah," the highly popular Italian television series that makes its American debut on SundanceTV on Wednesday.
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In July 1943, British and US military forces destroyed Hamburg in an attack that was named Operation Gomorrah and killed 42,600 civilians.
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Editorial Every election year, politicians of both parties portray Washington as a Gomorrah of influence peddling, goldbricking and waste, funded by hardworking taxpayers.
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ZeroZeroZero is Saviano's second major work and second to be adapted — his first book, Gomorrah, chronicled the business of the Neapolitan crime organization Camorra.
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Sky, which has made original shows including "Britannia", "Babylon Berlin" and "Gomorrah", said the games would be based on its forthcoming productions across Europe.
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"Piranhas," an Italian crime drama whose screenwriters included Roberto Saviano, the Italian writer and author of "Gomorrah," took home the prize for best screenplay.
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As evidenced in Garrone's 2008 gangster epic Gomorrah, the director loves a man who can scramble up a drainage pipe, and Fonte doesn't disappoint.
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That is the grim reality behind the first novel by Roberto Saviano—author of "Gomorrah", a bestselling exposé of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia network.
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The protesters shouted about the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which the Bible says were destroyed by what it calls sinful acts, including sodomy.
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In the film, directed by Matteo Garrone, known for Naples mafia movie "Gomorrah", the burglars shut the chihuahua in a freezer to stop it yapping.
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It should not be of the same sex so as to adulterate the altar of matrimony, like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah of Old.
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Sicario director Denis Villeneuve isn't doing this one, either; Stefano Sollima — who directed a number of episodes of the Italian crime drama Gomorrah, is taking over.
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For years, that story was my proof that Sinatra was wrong and the Big Apple was really just a noisy Gomorrah where the deranged roam free.
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God's moral standards are absolute, and all the sins Sodom and Gomorrah were committing, like blowjobs and mixing fabrics, are still going down all the time!
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And Roberto Saviano, the author of "Gomorrah," a best-selling book, movie and TV series about the Neapolitan crime syndicate, has been under escort since 2006.
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At one event, the hecklers invoked the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which were destroyed because of the sexual behavior of the residents who lived there.
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Serra is one of the many Italians—including Roberto Saviano, best-selling author of the book Gomorrah—who publicly voiced their frustration and disappointment about the campaign.
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USA Today reports the group shouted "Sodom and Gomorrah," a Biblical reference to cities destroyed by God as punishment for their sins — specifically homosexuality, according to many believers.
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"Gomorrah" has generated tremendous buzz, especially on social media, and has become the most-watched show in the history of Sky Italia, the country's largest pay television broadcaster.
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Terry also personally interrupted a Buttigieg event in Iowa last month by shouting about "Sodom and Gomorrah," but he was soon drowned out and booed by the mayor's supporters.
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Producer Jeremy Thomas was hoping to make a live-action version with Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone, while Robert Downey Jr. planned another with himself in the role of Geppetto.
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The boyish-looking Mr Di Lauro was the fourth son (figlio in Italian, hence "F4") of Paolo Di Lauro, whose family's bloody history inspired "Gomorrah", an internationally successful television series.
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Until even a few years ago, Sanità, where guys still hunch over bootleg-DVD stands watching the Naples mob show "Gomorrah," was the sort of place people stayed away from.
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As in Gomorrah, drugs flow through Dogman as an inevitable, if banal, form of social currency — Marcello's esteem among his soccer pals hardly stems from his footwork on the field.
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"I made the same mistake as soldiers who go to war voluntarily," Mr. Saviano said, reflecting on life since "Gomorrah," as we drove south at high speed along the A1 autostrada.
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Tertullian used Eve's disobedience to slander women as "the devil's gateway," and Byzantine persecutors popularized the idea that God smote Sodom and Gomorrah — cities once thought guilty of inhospitality — for homosexuality.
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To me, people who tout that all the time — they're looking at [the biblical story of] Sodom and Gomorrah [used by some Christians as biblical proof that God punishes people for homosexuality].
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Now there is a new contender for the prize—"Gomorrah", a drama about a collection of Italian gangs known as the Camorra that run a criminal empire from their base in Naples.
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As with Mr. Garrone's 2009 film, much of the series "Gomorrah" was filmed in Scampia, in a vast public housing project named "Le Vele," or "The Sails," for its white, triangular shape.
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"It's like Sodom and Gomorrah, like God is angry at us," said Jorge Ortiz Diaz, 66, a government employee who was assisting with the rescues on Tuesday, his eyes filling with tears.
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The filmmaker Stefano Sollima had success translating real-life crime into compelling onscreen drama as the showrunner of "Gomorrah," a popular Italian Mafia series based on nonfiction investigative work by Roberto Saviano.
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In Genesis, for example, Abraham argues with a wrathful but undecided God about how many righteous inhabitants it would take to save the wicked populace of Sodom and Gomorrah from divine annihilation.
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His daughters, seeing the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, concluded that they were the last people on earth and that to continue the human race, they must get pregnant by their father.
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"I was a huge fan of Matteo and it was kind of like a dream come true," Hayek said at the film's London premiere on Wednesday night of the "Gomorrah" and "Reality" filmmaker.
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The same components from the Book of Jeremiah were carried over into Lamentations: wormwood, Sodom and Gomorrah, plus mentions of the need for women to eat their young babies to survive in exile.
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What is your hope for this production as far as its impact on Naples and its image in the world, especially after the unflattering depictions in the movie and popular television show "Gomorrah"?
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Based on the same book as the 2008 film "Gomorrah," the show is a brooding, propulsive, totally addictive story of rival gangster clans in modern-day Naples, shot like a Brutalist chiaroscuro nightmare.
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"It's like Sodom and Gomorrah, like God is angry at us," said Jorge Ortiz Diaz, 66, a government employee who was helping rescue people after the second quake, his eyes filling with tears.
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The ruins of Jericho, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Tower of Babel snapping into fragments, could be interpreted just as biblical prints, yet a new exhibition argues the catastrophic scenes were contemporary political commentary.
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The port city of Hamburg suffered a devastating bombing raid by the Allied forces in July 1943, known as "Operation Gomorrah", that killed some 40,000 people and caused the destruction of swathes of the city.
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The result feels like The Sopranos, Gomorrah, and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels rolled into one: a lean, mean crime story that rings scariest with the truth that serious criminals are always around us.
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Instead it lived in the outlandish east London fashion night Foreign and later the Sodom and Gomorrah of the underage Hackney Wick warehouse raves, lawless parties where feral teenagers cried tears of glitter and ketamine.
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"Gomorrah," which turned into a blockbuster movie and TV series, and a second book in 2013, "ZeroZeroZero," about the cocaine trade, are works of exhaustive investigation told in a novelistic style with some novelistic license.
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"We hear things that are much worse than Gomorrah," Mr. Di Bella said, referring to an award-winning book and movie that recounted gruesome lives inside another of Italy's notorious mob networks, the Neapolitan Camorra.
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Italy's Campania region is home to the Camorra, the country's oldest organised-crime syndicate whose depredations were chronicled in Roberto Saviano's global best-seller, "Gomorrah", and the film and television series that were based on it.
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She never made it as the next Billy Graham but I found myself drawn to television, starting out in tiny meatpacking towns to big cities to networks in both Sodom (Los Angeles) and Gomorrah (New York).
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The film marks a handsome return to form for Matteo Garrone, whose strongest work, " Gomorrah " (2009), led us through the doings of the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia, as if on a tour of the ancient underworld.
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LONDON — The Biblical story of how Lot's daughters seduced their father to sustain the family gene pool after escaping the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah might not seem the most obviously commercial theme for an artwork.
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Mr. Saviano earned the long line of people who wish him the very worst with his first book, "Gomorrah," which in 2006 peeled back Naples's skin to name the mobsters who he says destroyed his city.
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MARCH 220 The Italian author Roberto Saviano's book "Gomorrah" — about how the mafia has evolved into something more insidious in the 221st century — has already been turned into an acclaimed 22 film and an ongoing television series.
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His first book, "Gomorrah," sold millions of copies and brought him death threats from the Camorra, the mafia of Naples and its surrounding region, that have kept him in semi-hiding under permanent police protection ever since.
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Best known for "Gomorrah," a blistering story about a people under siege by the Neapolitan mafia, Garrone looks at an Italy that is dramatically at odds with its touristic image, its charming hill towns and bourgeois niceties.
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Kids showed drugged-up youths cutting their teeth on the streets of New York City like it was a modern-day Sodom or Gomorrah; they brutalized strangers, raped unconscious friends, and got HIV from serial acts of unprotected sex.
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But I wondered if there might be people in the area that would prefer a $395 million investment that wasn't designed around the beliefs of a person who thinks that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by aliens using atomic bombs.
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Especially when we talk about the Abrahamic faiths (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism), defensive theology looks like six or seven scriptures that are consistently used to claim that LGBTQ+ folks are unholy or sinful, like the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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"NEW YORK values", a phrase Senator Ted Cruz used to posit America's greatest city as an East-Coast Gomorrah—liberal, licentious, infested with bearded atheists wearing unhealthily constrictive jeans—turn out, electorally at least, to be consistent with American norms.
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Elena Ferrante's beloved Neapolitan Novels (and the ongoing HBO adaptation of them) — along with the gritty "Gomorrah" books, movie and TV series — has roused curiosity about a destination long considered little more than a steppingstone to Capri, Ischia and Amalfi.
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Tbilisi has a thriving electronic music scene, but its association with drugs and L.G.B.T. visibility has led conservatives to think of venues like Bassiani, which appears in a scene in "And Then We Danced," as "Sodom and Gomorrah," Akin said.
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But it's the teenage Astrid (Alba August) she runs with: effervescent and a tad rebellious, quick to twist the story of Sodom and Gomorrah into a verse about soda pop, or twirl alone across the dance floor when boys don't take her hand.
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And while there is a heavy dose of domestic violence in the Ferrante books, the standard-bearer for Naples brutality remains "Gomorrah," a movie and then a popular television show, itself adapted from a blockbuster book about the Camorra mob and the city's terrifying slums.
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See, Paul believed that many prophecies in the New Testament Book of Revelations had come to pass and it would be only a matter of time before the four horsemen were riding down the Hollywood Freeway wreaking havoc on our modern Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Locations in northern Mexico, southern Italy and the Sahara are photographed in ways that are simultaneously arresting and unsurprising, and the "Gomorrah"-like ambience — violent action depicted with a melancholy austerity of tone and style — is reinforced by the incantatory music of the Scottish band Mogwai.
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Paolo Di Lauro, the former head of one of the most powerful clans, and the model for Don Pietro in "Gomorrah", is arguably one of the most innovative businesspeople Italy has produced in recent years (since 2005 he has been held in solitary confinement in a maximum-security prison).
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The mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, whose progress in cleaning up the city — both its garbage and its crime — has helped turn it into a cinematic capital of Italy, lamented the violent depictions of "Gomorrah," but said it had at least lowered expectations for visitors fearing the worst.
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In the same way that an Italian might watch "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" for a glimpse of the gritty streets of New York City, a New Yorker can watch "Gomorrah" to tour the slums of Naples, or "Fauda" for a taste of the occupied territories' souks and mosques.
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I think that faith can really guide folks through tough times in their life, but being very serious about your strict interpretation of something that might not even be a good translation around one specific issue when — like, the passage about Sodom and Gomorrah is actually about sexual assault. Ugh!
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A jaunty man with an impish smile, he has experience representing a star author who is subject to death threats: he was the first foreign publisher to translate Roberto Saviano, the Italian journalist who wrote the 2006 book " Gomorrah ," about the Neapolitan Mafia, and has lived in hiding ever since.
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A graduate of Central St. Martin's, she had a career as a set designer, working on the gritty Italian television series based on Roberto Saviano's best-selling 2007 book, "Gomorrah," and was instrumental in transforming a derelict orangery without electricity or running water into the relaxed bar dining scene of today.
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Guillermo del Toro, who directed the Oscar-winning "The Shape of Water," has chosen the Pinocchio tale for the subject of his first animated film, and Matteo Garrone, the director of the widely acclaimed "Gomorrah," is also planning one about the marionette, to star another Oscar winner, the Italian comedian Roberto Benigni.
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Presidential hopeful Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegSanders leads Democratic field in Colorado poll Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Castro qualifies for next Democratic primary debates MORE (D) was confronted by two protesters shouting about the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah at a campaign event Tuesday night in Iowa.
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" By high school, Mr. Noah writes, he had become an enterprising businessman, copying and selling pirated CDs; he and his business partners would soon segue into the D.J. business, throwing raucous dance parties in Alexandra, "a tiny, dense pocket of a shantytown," known as Gomorrah because it had "the wildest parties and the worst crimes.
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To Republican strategists generally, and to Karl Rove, chief strategist for President George W. Bush's re-election campaign, in particular, the very thought of gay marriage wending its way from such Gomorrah-like settings as Cambridge, Massachusetts, and San Francisco to a church near you provided a path not just to boost evangelical turnout in November's election, but also to convince that great silent majority, on whom Republican candidates relied, that Democrats and liberals threatened the moral fabric of the nation.
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