Word: conventionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louis-born Marilyn Morheuser entered the Roman Catholic Sisters of Loretto. After 16 years as a nun, she left the order to become a civil rights worker in Milwaukee. "I was happy," she recalls of her convent life. "But it was like being in a box with windows in it. You can see things happening outside. You want to help, but you can't, because you're inside...
...wears nylons and smokes an occasional cigarette, but Soeur Sourire still feels the effects of the cloister even though she has left the Dominican convent outside Brussels to pursue a secular career as a pop singer. "I am not yet ready to face audiences," smiled Janine Deckers, 38, the singing nun who now goes by the name of Luc-Dominique. So when she embarks early next year on a tour of the U.S., Sister Smile will probably do most of her singing on taped TV shows...
...with De-Luxe color and local color (from stunning location sites in Spain), is the usual message: Be Mine. Mel Ferrer as the young old master says it to Rosanna Schiaffino as the highborn senorita whose family will not allow her to be his. Rosanna ultimately dies in a convent, post partum and penitent, paying dearly for what began as just another portrait sitting. After a brush with a heretic-hunting cardinal (Mario Feliciani) of the Spanish Inquisition, Mel goes quietly to pieces and spends the brief epilogue in an asylum, where demented models presumably inspire his oddly elongated, mystical...
Another nun at Belgium's Ficher-mont Convent once said of Sister Luc-Gabrielle: "She's well adapted to the Dominican life." So it seemed as she puttered around the convent farm, ignoring the outside world, where her Singing Nun album (originally recorded as a souvenir for girls who came on retreats) competed with the platters of Bobby Darin and Paul Anka. But at some point she decided that her vocation may be secular after all. The convent announced that she has left to live outside Brussels, where, now 38, she will resume her former name of Janine...
...drab, two-story building on Montevideo's bustling Boulevard España looks as quiet as a convent. It is hardly that. Inside is the Soviet Union's biggest embassy in Latin America and the clearinghouse for Soviet propaganda and subversion in the Southern Hemisphere. Up to now, the Uruguayan government has never bothered to interfere. But suddenly last week Uruguay's ruling nine-man National Council cracked down, ordering four Soviet embassy officers out of the country and serving notice on the others to watch their step...