Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when she is allowed to go out shopping: "Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us. The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full." The image of a scarlet nun seems appropriate to her role in this strange new society. Once a month, during the Ceremony, Offred has sex with her Commander. She lies between the legs of the Commander's wife, "my head on her stomach, her pubic bone under the base of my skull, her thighs on either...
...first step is to dispatch an advance team to live in the home of a local family. Unlike government soldiers, whose own legacy to the village may be a trail of stolen chickens or worse offenses, the guerrillas try to behave courteously, listen sympathetically and pay their way. A nun or priest often adds a reassuring presence. They begin by organizing teach-ins and drawing out the villagers about their complaints...
Field has been a well-known actress since the1960's when she starred in "The Flying Nun" and"Gidget." She won two Best Actress Academy Awardsfor her lead roles in "Norma Rae" and last year's"Places of the Heart...
...likes me. And I think that she is sort of like me too. She has a temper, you know." Maria giggles. "The flying nun flies off the handle. But she helps me with everything. She wants me to be nice to my father, you know? But I can't do that. He's not the sort of person you talk to. I am scared to get close...
...border, the Rev. John Fife nailed up a neatly painted sign that reads: THIS IS A SANCTUARY FOR THE OPPRESSED FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. Fife is now facing the consequences of that proclamation. This week he and an ecumenical group of ten others, including two Roman Catholic priests and a nun, will go on trial in Tucson on charges of conspiring to transport and shelter Central American aliens. If they are found guilty, the sentences on the conspiracy charges could be as severe as five years in prison and $10,000 fines...