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Added to this charm of style is a story that remains consistently riveting. The convoluted efforts of the psychiatrist Martha Livingstone and Mother Miriam Ruth to discover the truth behind the young nun Agnes' strangled baby have all the fascination of a beautifully morbid detective story. Sex and murder, after all, are seldom dull...
...Hospital of Divine Providence. As he delivered his sermon, a gunshot shattered the calm of the ceremony. The Archbishop toppled to the floor, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Blood stained the white altar cloth. Bending down to give the gray-haired prelate a final kiss, a nun received his last words: "May God have mercy on the assassins...
Lynah's lewd, rude, and crude bunch of students will do anything to rattle an opposing netminder. Chant the goalie's name, label him a sieve (along with other spacious structures) and throw objects that would repulse many a nun...
Bill's sister Dawn (Sammi Davis) is only fifteen, but with the war on, she's already got a soldier beau. "It's the war," her mother says. "It's quick, quick, quick." Dawn replies, "I'm 15, still in school, and I want to be a nun when I grow up." A few months later she's pregnant...
...meantime, Bork's personal life had brightened. After a period of loneliness in Washington, he met and soon married Mary Ellen Pohl, a former Sacred Heart nun working for a conservative think tank. "He was raised a Protestant, married a Jew and then a Catholic," notes Ward Bowman, a former Yale law professor. "It's pretty hard to say he's bigoted." Not a member of a church, Bork describes himself as a "generic Protestant...