Word: conventionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare excursions outside the Hotel Splendide, Funnyman Bemelmans draws a demon-driven adolescent who swears like a legionnaire, squeezes the head of an infant like a tennis ball, flips hatchets instead of hips at suitors, does her best to entice a priest, and sets fire to a convent...
Favorite Nephew. Descended from wealthy, upper-caste Singhalese, the Prime Minister is emotional but intelligent. Though she was educated in a Roman Catholic convent and sends her three children to Catholic schools, she is a practicing Buddhist and Ceylon's chief advocate of birth control. She took office promising to ''carry out my husband's program" - the main trouble with this being that her husband never really...
...came three hours later as a convoy of twelve autos brought refugees from Inkisi and Madimba, led by Antoine Saintraint, 33, the civil administrator of the Madimba district. Huddled exhaustedly over a sandwich, he recounted how his wife and some 30 other women had fled to a Roman Catholic convent for protection. Soldiers broke in and raped them all, except for three who were spared because of obvious pregnancy. Was his wife among those raped? "Some things are better left unsaid," Saintraint said grimly...
...chic suits, lowcut evening gowns and bathing suits walked by, the sisters, looking a bit like ravens at a parade of cockatoos, exchanged expert opinions, took precise notes. After the showing, they stepped into Cosi's staff car, a blue Fiat, and drove away to their walled convent on Rome's southern side. There they produced a sprightly and authoritative review of the latest modes...
Conspiracy of Hearts. In a film that uses every known device to strap its audience with suspense, Lilli Palmer is the mother superior of an Italian convent where Jewish children-escapees from a Nazi concentration camp-are sheltered...