Word: nuns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...woman of dreams, the woman of lust and woman the nun," Edvard Munch once confided. The Norwegian fin de siècle painter was explaining one of his favorite compositions, which showed three women standing together-one in black, one in white, one nude. He used this trio in several different canvases, known collectively as "the Sphinx" cycle. They epitomized, as no other subject could, the shy, alcoholic bachelor's agonized obsession with that half of the human race which he never was able to understand...
...stood then, the opening-night version of the show was almost half gone. Some of the new material, introduced since the premiere, has even turned out to be quite funny--especial a bit in which an emancipated nun feverishly embraced her lover, suddenly paused, and then panicked, "Has the angel come? Am I with child?" Yet, the total effect of all the sketches remained erratic. One element of the show, the Lenny Bruce ballet, for example, aimed at slightly obscene visual non-sequiturs. On a more abstract level, Leven had inserted stylized mood scenes on topics like the mechanization...
...From 1958, the entire Hasler family had been under the influence of the Stocker-Kohler "holy family." The ex-priest and his mistress believed that they had been chosen by God to lead the survivors of a coming apocalypse. Minutely detailed instructions for the group came from a Carmelite nun, known as "the Little Star," over her "direct telephone to heaven...
...Their reports reflected an uncommon amount of argument and uncertainty about a difficult subject, but the staff that handled those files in New York had some special qualifications. Researcher Clare Mead got her master's in history at Notre Dame, taught high school in Texas as a Dominican nun...
...Twiggy. If there is anything genuinely new in the new batch of sitchcoms, ABC can claim some dubious credit. Having proved with last year's hit, The Flying Nun, that audiences will sit still for anything that is sufficiently inane, the network now exploits its advantage with television's first series about a transvestite, The Ugliest Girl in Town. The story deals with a young Hollywood talent agent (Peter Kastner) who is mad for an English starlet. He works his way to London as a bewigged model and becomes the hottest mannequin since Twiggy. Kastner admits that...