Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emerges from San Francisco's Sacred Heart convent in shorts and T shirt and jogs for a minimum often miles. But for Sister Marion Irvine, 54, her 5½ years of long-distance running is more than just healthy outreach to the postwimple age. Last December, the Dominican nun covered the 26-mile 385-yard course at the California International Marathon in Sacramento in 2:51.01. Thus by a scant .15 sec., she qualified for the Olympic trials, the oldest woman in the world to make the grade. Sister Marion is now training with her coach to compete...
...plot unfolds, so does the family's bitter and guilt-ridden past. The well-bred Mary regrets all she abandoned to marry the dashing actor James Tyrone--the aspirations of becoming a nun or a concert pianist, the niceties of the settled home life she has always craved. She blames herself for bringing Edmund, a sickly baby, into the world, and for disgracing her family by being a "dope fiend...
...beginning a novitiate in the 2,500-year-old tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Today Ane Pema Cho-dron, 47, whose name means "lotus dharma torch," is executive director of a meditation center in Boulder, Colo., and probably the only American woman to have been fully ordained as a Buddhist nun. The mother of two children and a former elementary school teacher in California and New Mexico, Chodron followed the path of enlightenment to Hong Kong. There she made more than 300 vows, including celibacy, abstinence from alcohol and never to handle money, travel alone or ride in a vehicle. Even...
...essentially an aerial machine gun equipped with supersnooping devices. Next week CBS launches Airwolf, about a supersonic CIA attack helicopter that is invisible to radar. One of its pilots, Ernest Borgnine, decorously refers to it as "she," as if it were a more temperamental version of the flying nun...
...There's that cuckoo again!" Tallulah Bankhead used a splendid economy of language at her parting in New York City's St. Luke's Hospital in 1968. "Bourbon," she said. The Irish writer Brendan Behan rose to the occasion in 1964 when he turned to the nun who had just wiped his brow and said, "Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops." Some sort of award for sharp terminal repartee should be bestowed (posthumously) upon an uncle of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., John Holmes, who lay dying in his Boston home...