Word: agnese
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Bono's network of contacts didn't hurt either. In 2003, when President Bush visited an AIDS clinic in Entebbe, Uganda, he was welcomed by a children's choir singing America the Beautiful. Then a woman named Agnes Nyamayarwo told the story of how she was unknowingly infected with HIV...
It is the considerable strength and the ultimate limitation of Agnes of God that it gives nearly equal time to each point of view. The believer is Mother Miriam Ruth (Anne Bancroft), head of a convent of cloistered nuns, whose young charge Sister Agnes (Meg Tilly) has been accused of...
In transferring his 1982 Broadway play to the screen, John Pielmeier has achieved a sort of Jane Fonda Workout of rewriting. He has stripped it of dialogue fat and added muscle and connective tissue. The piece, which took place on a bare stage, now roams through a handsome Quebec abbey...
On Broadway, Amanda Plummer gave a performance that was horrifying and inspiring in its hurtling physicality. Her Agnes was a voluptuary of angelic possession, and Plummer easily stole the show. Norman Jewison's direction goes for narrative suspense and coherence over emotional jolts, so now Agnes is merely first among...
DIED. Lucia Chase, 88, indomitable co-founder and, from 1945 to 1980, co-director and financial angel of the American Ballet Theatre, to which she helped transplant the traditions of the great European troupes and which she helped forge into one of the world's best companies; in New York...