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...shock of unusual-colored hair, whatever the color. She probably has gone barefoot all week except Sundays. Mama has probably caught her in the hayloft with one of the farm hands and decided that this kid is too much for her to handle. So she sends her to the convent...
Mopped Brow. After a rousing exchange of national anthems, Agnew drove to the town cemetery, where he placed wreaths of pink and white gladioli at the graves of eight relatives. Then to the convent of Saint Spirdion, founded by Agnew's great-aunt, Sister Makaria, where the Vice President chatted with two orphans and gave each a bracelet...
...Boss George Shultz and Economic Aide Herbert Stein, have in the past shown an ideological horror at any interference with free markets. Casting them as price-control planners, quips Robert Nathan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, is "like putting Polly Adler in charge of a convent...
...politically dangerous priest who threatens the intricate schemes of the insatiable Cardinal Richelieu. To gain control of the walled city of Loudun-thus crushing a steadfast fortress of independence in France -Richelieu and his minions engineer a trial at which Grandier stands accused of inducing hysteria in a convent of Ursuline nuns...
...other hand, Geraldine Fitzgerald gives a far denser reality to the role of the morphine-addicted wife than Florence Eldridge did. Eldridge seemed more absent-minded and scatterbrained than deeply disturbed and confused. Fitzgerald is the shy convent girl, the impish coquette and the victim of the lonely despair of a thousand one-night stands spent in second-rate hotels. She blends these elements into a consummately poignant portrait of a woman for whom drugs are the only surcease from sorrow. She, rather than the father, seems to dominate the play...