Word: nun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Catholic casualties-an unwed mother, an agnostic who's had two abortions, a homosexual and an alcoholic wife beater who constantly wets his pants. The students, who all blame their problem on Sister Mary's repressive dogma have come to embarrass her. In the course of their confrontation, the nun shoots two of her students and chases another away, while the fourth is held at gunpoint despite his pleas that he be excused to go to the bathroom...
DiPrete is not the only local G.O.P. candidate with a chance this fall. Five Republican women are running for high offices, including Arlene Violet, a former nun making a second bid for state attorney general. Violet's strong law-and-order platform has earned her the sobriquet Attila the Nun. Local Republican strategists have yet another reason to take heart: although Rhode Island was the only New England state to reject Reagan in 1980, a recent poll suggests that it now places the President in a dead heat with Walter Mondale...
Sister Boom Boom. No large gathering in San Francisco's homosexual community, including the gay rights march planned for the day before the convention opens, would be quite complete without the appearance of a figure clad in a hiked-up nun's habit, black fishnet stockings, and a tightly drawn wimple that sometimes fails to hold in an unruly shock of red hair. These have become the transvestite trademarks of Sister Boom Boom, member of the Order of Perpetual Indulgence, and the drag creation of a 29-year-old astrologer named Jack Fertig. Part put-on artist...
...school may constitutionally give preference to members of racial minorities. When the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wode, the celebrated abortion case, was handed down, our guests included a professor with an appointment at both the Divinity School and School of Public Health, a Roman Catholic nun, a pregnancy counselor at the Harvard University Health Services and a physician from the Massachuseets General Hospital. The purpose of this was more than informational. It was to provide intimate contact with a variety of professionals to help the students sort out possible career decisions. Some students even ended up getting...
Some game companies have tried to insulate themselves from the crush by producing educational programs, but they are running into competition from specialized firms like the Learning Company. Founded in 1979 by Ann Piestrup, a former Roman Catholic nun and an educational psychologist, the company has been partly financed by a grant from the National Institute of Education. In January it unveiled five new programs, including ReaderRabbit: Fabulous Word Factory, which develops reading skills for children ages five to seven...