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...songwriting. On the other hand, a generic Hollywood producer gave Way Out Where a digital sheen more suited to WFNX (which won't care) than to the fans who will actually buy the record. If you've never heard the Verlaines, don't start here--start with Juvenilia (Homestead/Flying Nun), their best and earliest work, recently reissued on CD with several added tracks. The Verlaines faithful aren't quite a church--more like a grad seminar; if you've already done the prerequisites, Way Out Where will make you glad you're taking the course...
Karen Armstrong, 48, who wrote A History of God, has impressively wide scholarship and strong ecumenical credentials. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun, part of the time studying literature at St. Anne's College, Oxford. It was there that she began to question the teachings of the church and decided, after considerable agony, to leave her order. She lives alone in north London and teaches at the Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism. Armstrong has written 10 books, including an account of her convent years, Through the Narrow Gate, and a well-regarded biography...
...McNally's Texas family, his father Hubert was a wholesale beverage distributor; mother Dorothy worked as an accountant. In school, Terrence's passion was opera. "An Ursuline nun played records for us," he says, "and I loved it from the start." He is a noted opera prince -- a regular panelist on the Metropolitan Opera radio quiz -- with a huge record collection: "I could never play it all in my lifetime." From this fascination came his higher- than-camp opera fantasia, The Lisbon Traviata (1985), and a play in the works, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), about Bellini...
...Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, so a wary male critic is at least prepared for the film's politically correct earnestness. One of the group, Natalie (JoBeth Williams), is a movie critic who raises money to make a film about homeless women. Another, Maggie (Talia Shire), is a nun who faces a spiritual crisis after she helps a woman get an abortion. There are lesbian revelations, a discussion of the Anita Hill hearings and rampant man bashing. Rheza (Lindsay Crouse) has been dumped by her husband and bears a grudge. Hannah (Helen Slater) is married to Natalie's ex-husband...
...controversy that has anguished Catholics and Jews for nearly a decade ended with the departure of the last Carmelite nun from a convent adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where more than 1 million Jews were slaughtered. When the convent opened in 1984, in a building once used to store poison gas, Jewish organizations around the world protested that this Roman Catholic presence was inappropriate at the very gates of a place of such particularly solemn significance to Jews. Pope John Paul II ordered the nuns to move out in April...