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Page, a grande dame of the stage, shapes a Mother Superior who is at once completely convincing and utterly likeable. Pielmeler's firsthand experience of parochial schools obviously has served him well in one respect: he draws his nuns, if not his psychiatrists, clearly and beautifully. Intelligent, knowledgeable about the...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: A Cloistered View | 3/2/1982 | See Source »

THE SOUTH IN SHOCK Texas, at least, made it through the cold without widespread calamity. Schools closed for much of the week, and haute Houston seemed to welcome the rare chance to preen in fur coats and fancy down parkas. Some token flakes fell on that city, and one delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Numbing of America | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

So compelling was she as a Catholic nun in The Bells of St. Mary's that for years after, Ingrid Bergman, 66, received letters from mothers whose daughters had chosen convent life after seeing the 1945 film. Opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1943 classic Casablanca, she captured a million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 9, 1981 | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

Meet the TGV, which stands for train a grande vitesse (of great speed).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Entrez the Flying Peacock | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

In all of sport, there is no contest as self-consciously august as Wimbledon. Like a dowager duchess, Wimbledon walks hand in hand with a statelier past, revering its history, requiring homage to its traditions, never questioning its prerogatives. But in the 104th year of "The Championships upon the lawns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fire and Ice at Wimbledon | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

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