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BEST PUNCH: "Organized religion, in my experience, has been destructive. Why do I have to do what all these men are saying? Why is a woman's sexuality supposed to be so evil?" Also, turned down Mom's offer to be a nun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 15, 2001 | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...photo from this era shows Buñuel in full nun-drag - making it no surprise that early on in "Chien andalou" (after the infamous eyeball- slitting scene, featuring Buñuel himself) our hero is seen bicycling through the streets wearing nun-like apparel. Later on, as the hero attempts to sexually attack the heroine, he is required to pull ropes connected to a variety of weighty impediments - including two reclining Marist brothers (one of whom is purportedly Dali). "L'Age d'or" followed soon after, but Buñuel was not able to return to his trademark imagery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Not-So-Discreet Charm of Luis Buñuel | 11/30/2000 | See Source »

...kissing of altar boys' feet leading to sexually charged stares between the man and the woman who will become his beloved ("El/This Strange Passion," 1952). The coup de grace is delivered in "Archibaldo de la Cruz" when our hero, an aspiring (but terribly clumsy) serial killer, frightens a nun so badly she plunges down a deep elevator shaft - producing, in most cinemas, a hearty round of laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Not-So-Discreet Charm of Luis Buñuel | 11/30/2000 | See Source »

...pair of perpendicular lines: making a cross is as simple as rubbing two sticks together. Yet how much potent symbolism can be read into this image; how much religious and social weight it has borne. Place it on a nun's habit or a Klansman's hood and get drastically different readings. Tweak its four ends and a swastika emerges. There are familiar evocations of the crucified Jesus in this piquant Christmas tome (actually more a Good Friday book), but Klein lets her imagination roam wild through pictures of trapeze artists, surfboarders, plastic cutlery and body sculpture. The figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treats That Speak Volumes | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

Lucy Kaylin, however, gives careful consideration to just such matters in her absorbing new book, For the Love of God: The Faith and Future of the American Nun (Morrow; 239 pages; $24). Kaylin, the "daughter of a Jewish-born atheist father and a lapsed Lutheran mother who has since turned to Zen Buddhism," approaches the subject with a respectful, blank-canvas curiosity. Some of the nuns she interviews are cloistered, emerging only briefly from a shuttered existence. Others live in apartment complexes and work in boardrooms, indistinguishable from their secular counterparts. All seem inclined toward frank discussion of their faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Force of Habit | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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