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...join the dance?"), Franju cuts to a masguerage ball. The measured actions and fantastic costumes of the dancers establish a fairytale quality, into which is integrated strong tension in the relations between figures. Later in the film a child stands staring at the villainess, who is disguised as a nun. Discomfited, she gets up and moves out of his view. In both sequences a child's clear view of good and bad coexists with, and is even diverted by, the marvelous beauty of people and settings...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: Judex | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

Married. Jacqueline Grennan, 42, outspoken president of Missouri's Webster College and a former nun, who received dispensation to leave the Roman Catholic sisterhood in 1967; and Paul Joseph Wexler, 49, Jewish recording-company executive; he for the second time; in a private ceremony conducted by a Jesuit priest; in Webster Groves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 20, 1969 | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

GUIDELINE (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Hatred and tension between black and white and ways to dispel such troubles are the subjects under discussion on "Race and the Church: A Priest and a Nun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Cinema: may 23, 1969 | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...really won the 1968-69 season? Michael Dann, CBS senior vice president for programming, feels that he did. With CBS in second place midseason, Dann decided to shift Hawaii Five-0 from its 8 p.m. Thursday time slot (where it started opposite Flying Nun and the second half of Daniel Boone) to 10 p.m. Wednesday (against the less formidable competition of The Outsider and a movie). As a result, Hawaii Five-0 climbed from a 26% share of the audience to 37%. Without that shift, NBC might have finished in first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Industry: Everyone a Winner | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

There was nothing trivial?then or now?about Ethel's devotion to her religion. At one point, she thought seriously of becoming a nun (to which Bobby quipped: "I'll compete with anyone, but how can I compete with God?"). Her sisters recall her sitting on a horse backstage at Madison Square Garden, waiting to go on, frowning intently at a book. In accordance with her sodality pledges, she was finishing up her half-hour's spiritual reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 25, 1969 | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

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