Word: amanda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gripping plot: it takes as its subject the true story of a young nun who became pregnant in her convent and whose baby was mysteriously strangled just after birth. But the script's forays into the realm of allegory place a heavy burden on its dramatic content. Agnes (Amanda Plummer), the nun on trial for the murder of her child, and her Mother Superior (Geraldine Page) together represent faith; Dr. Martha Livingstone (Lee Remick), the psychiatrist assigned by the court to the case, embodies reason. The problem with the play lies in its clumsy handling of so diametric a dramatic...
...fact, were most of the acting not so fine, the play would be crippled by its overt bias toward faith over reason. Because Geraldine Page and Amanda Plummer perform so magnificently, Pielmeler's faulty script sails along smoothly...
...Amanda ("Binky") Urban, 35, like many new mothers-to-be, will not sit home calculating her lost wages. Now more than four months pregnant, the vivacious and well-connected literary agent guides clients through the predatory shoals of New York publishing. Urban moved herself and writer-columnist Husband Ken Auletta, 39, to a larger and more expensive Manhattan apartment in preparation for the new child. The Aulettas exude a confident, plugged-in affluence. Theirs is a life many people would envy. Why would they turn it upside down for a newborn infant? Urban voices the generosity of many older, first...
...plot might sound sudsy but it has a sting unknown to the soaps. Helen (Valerie French), a middle-aged lady of slippery virtue, deserts her teen-age daughter Jo (Amanda Plummer) to marry a piratical con man in a Hathaway patch (John Carroll) who is visibly her junior. Jo, a kind of spitfiery waif, gets involved with a black sailor (Tom Wright) who ships out leaving her pregnant. A good Samaritan homosexual (Keith Reddin) moves into Jo's dreary unheated flat to care...
...Amanda McKerrow, 17, was asleep in her room at the Rossiya Hotel off Red Square when her coach, Washington Ballet Company Founder Mary Day, called with the news: "We've hit the jackpot-it's the gold." The 5-ft. 3-in., 90-Ib. dancer had tied for top honors last week in the 16-to 19-year-old category of the quadrennial Moscow International Ballet Competition, the first American to be so honored. "We didn't go for fire-works," says Amanda of her final-round pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty with Partner Simon...