Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHITE SISTER, never certain whether to be a farce or a tearjerker, finally settles for being just absurd. Sophia Loren appears as the most ravishing nun in Eu rope; she gave her life to mother church after her boyfriend got deep-fried in an oil fire. She ministers to the sick and the infirm as head of an Italian hospital, which is riddled with both political strife and human tragedy. The movie is unrelentingly simpleminded, and treats all subjects from cardiac ar rests to brimming bedpans with a jovial mixture of high spirits, low comedy and bad taste. Loren breezes...
...think you're cute, don't you, Dunlop? Did Derek Bok go to church on Easter, Dunlop? Or on Good Griday, Ash Monday, and Passover? A Freedom Seder, perhaps? Or a midnight mass celebrated by a homosexual defrocked Jesuit married to a former nun? Dunlop, I'm afraid you're really up shit creek without a paddle. And you can tell your friends in Hanoi that the President is a merciful man, but his mercies do not endure forever...
...from an English series. The Girl with Something Extra is billed as a romantic comedy series about a young bride who has one funny problem -she can read people's minds. The woman with something extra will be Sally Field, who a few seasons ago was a flying nun in an ABC comedy. It is easier, it seems, to kick the habit than dump inane scriptwriters...
...scores of voters to polling places in a shuttle of buses. In the Rialto district, they assembled strange processions of the elderly and infirm who looked as if they could scarcely make it to the nearest park bench, much less to the ballot box. There was even a Spanish nun, a fervent supporter of Prime Minister Jack Lynch, who appeared at one Dublin polling place to vote for the local Fianna Fáil candidate. But she was challenged and told she could not vote. "All right," she declared. "If I can't vote...
...object of which is to get as close to each other as possible and yet not touch. Lenny passes the test, which scholars have discovered was sometimes required of clerical novices in the Middle Ages, who had to spend a night in the same bed with an unclad nun and resist all temptations in order to prove their piety. The point of such an exercise in this film, aside from the injection of cheap suspense into a sagging plot, is as yet unknown...