Word: conventioning
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...resilient as a Yo-Yo." Daughter of a Chinese architect and an English-born Conover-model mother, Nancy knows Suzie Wong's world as well as anyone in the cast. When she was not absorbing an education in Hong Kong's Roman Catholic Maryknoll convent school, she was playing in the city where Suzie herself grew...
...postulants, chilled from waiting at the roadside. Kennedy ordered a halt, hopped out of his car. One postulant wished him a happy St. Patrick's Day, pinned a green ribbon on his lapel. But Kennedy looked uncomfortable when photographers' bulbs popped. Later, when visiting the nearby convent, Kennedy barred photos. "I think not," he said, raising his hand. Back in the car, Kennedy explained that pictures are not allowed in some convents, tore off all but the slightest fragment of the green ribbon. "After all," he explained, "we're not in Boston...
...Mahyére, daughter of a strict Geneva pastor, in most respects evidently modeled her heroine after herself. Sylvie is a Parisian schoolgirl, a Lesbian who tries to make it on pills and "oceans of alcohol." She has been turned out of two schools, the second time from a convent school for writing a love letter to a teacher. Sylvie has long since decided that she ought to be dead, but death frightens her. Yet to live, "one has to choose between three houses where one is shut up; the asylum, the convent and the brothel." In her view...
...lovers kiss, and the hurricane of their emotions, assisted by a battery of wind machines, bends saplings double. She flees the convent, and to judge by all the meteorological hell that breaks loose, the earth is fleeing the solar system too. Anyway, pretty soon a couple of gypsies (Katina Paxinou and Walter Slezak) drag the heroine off to live in their filthy caravan, where she hears that her dragoon is dead. She renounces religion and gives herself to a gypsy prince (Vittorio Gassman...
...Gustavo Rojo) to sin (Dennis King). Crowd scene follows crowd scene: theaters, bullfights, battles. She finds her dragoon again at the side of the "Iron Duke" just before the Battle of Waterloo, which is thrown in for good measure. In the end, of course, she goes back to the convent, and at this point it becomes painfully apparent that the moviemakers intend, even at the risk of sacrilege, to have their unleavened bread and eat it too. But after more than two hours of claptrap, audiences will probably be too tired to care, except about just one thing: Will Miracle...