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...Nuns of the Holy Sacrament, completed in 1687 in fulfillment of a vow made by Queen Maria Kazimiera as her husband, King John Sobieski, rode into battle against the Turks (he won). In August 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, the entire church and its adjacent convent were leveled by bombs and artillery shells, burying 35 nuns, four priests, and 4,000 civilian rebels under the wreckage. Today, newly roofed with copper that sparkles in the sun's autumn rays, the church is at last receiving its final coat of paint...
...Thieus have two children: 14year-old Anh is in a convent school in Dalat; six-year-old Loc lives at home in the family's modest military quarters near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. There Thieu, who likes flowers, dabbles some evenings with a trowel, or walks through the compound with an air rifle, shooting birds that are cooked and served to dinner guests. His real love is weekend fishing with cracked crab bait in the Saigon River or in the South China...
...situation comedies too. Most cynical confection of the season is The Flying Nun (ABC), a mating of The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. Cutesy Star Sally Field, 21, plays a swinging nun whose starchy cornet launches her airborne in the wind cur rents around her Puerto Rican convent. Naturally, her antics appall the stern, stereotyped mother superior, but Sister Sally manages endless good works and bad gags, such as a crash landing in an Army garbage dump...
...says, "to French kiss or not to French kiss is usually the question. Keeping the teeth closed becomes the ancient badge of the martyrs who refused to sacrifice to the pagan gods of Rome. She firms her lips and guards her tongue with all the ardor of a convent under siege...
...Malabre's Cuba, there is "no longer bourgeois variety for the happy few, only flat socialist equality for all." The convent school that his wife once attend ed is now the Lenin Workers Training Center, and the elegant home of a former friend now houses an embassy. The greatest change is the appearance of an entirely new vocabulary. Tracatrán, a new coinage onomatopoetically suggesting machinelike response, refers to a person who carries out orders implacably; parquear la tinosa means "to park the buzzard," or pass the buck; saram-pionado, or "measled," describes someone who shows a rash...