Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shirley MacLaine's screen career careens from pillow to lamppost. She specializes in playing lovable, indomitable whores (Some Came Running, Irma La Douce, Sweet Charity), a role she sashays through once again in Two Mules for Sister Sara. In this one, Shirley is supposed to be a nun but the fact that she is a hooker in disguise comes as more of a surprise to Co-Star Clint Eastwood than it does to the audience...
...Cornell researchers, a young Israeli chemist named Akiba Bar-Nun and his biochemist wife Nurit, tested the theory in a relatively simple experiment. They filled one end of a brass-and-Pyrex tube with a mixture of ammonia, methane, ethane and water vapor-all probable ingredients of the earth's early atmosphere. A thin plastic membrane separated the gases from the other end of the tube, which contained chemically inert helium. The Bar-Nuns increased the helium pressure until the membrane broke. This produced a shock wave that swept into the gaseous mixture at high speed, momentarily creating temperatures...
...scandal of The Lady of Monza is scarcely worth a footnote in the history of the 17th century church-or in the annals of cinema. An aristocratic nun of Monza, Italy (Anne Heywood), is raped by the villainous landowner Gian Paolo (Antonio Sabato). Behold, she likes it -as do many of her colleagues in the convent. Soon Gian Paolo and the priest, Don Arrigoni (Hardy Kruger), are enjoying the favors of novices, nuns and the prioress. In the denouement the nun of Monza, for her sins, is sealed alive in a dungeon. So was the incident at Monza until...
Three of the nine had worked in Guatemala. Thomas Melville, and his wife Marjorie, a former priest and a former nun, calm in their love, had joined John Hogan and five others in attempting to change the crushing poverty the Guatemalan people are living...
...Manhattan. The so-called "People's Coalition" made 34 demands, including equal student and faculty representation on all policymaking bodies, greater autonomy for the Black and Puerto Rican Studies department, and curriculum changes at Hunter High School, which is affiliated with the college. Mrs. Jacqueline Wexler, a former nun who recently became Hunter's new president, agreed with many of the demands and suspended classes to permit broader participation in negotiations, but she refused to deal only with the radical demonstrators. She was also reluctant to call in the police. "I'm not about to give them...