Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in Africa, Milingo began praying for cures of ailing supplicants, and soon hundreds were reporting miracles. One American nun, Frances Randall, a psychology lecturer in Nairobi, says she was cured of a painful broken coccyx bone. Cure-seekers streamed to Lusaka from across Africa, and Milingo healed others in the U.S. and Europe. When he attended an African bishops' conference, the sick congregated outside the hall...
...True to the packager's creed, Yes, Giorgio has something for everyone whose taste was formed in the '50s; lots of cute lovers' spats but no visible sex, a rich range of overlit settings for a parade of Pavarotti's greatest hits, plus a funny nun, two funny servants and a not-so-funny food fight (in case someone from the Animal House crowd wanders in by mistake). Franklin J. Schaffner has directed as if no one let him in on the scam. Poor chap seems to be taking the whole thing seriously. Or maybe...
...performance was to have been part of Sunday night's Tony Awards on CBS, but when network censors took in A Call from the Vatican, they said sorry, wrong number. The replacement song, Be Italian, puts Anita into attire more in keeping with Sunday-night fare: a nun's habit...
...better, and too often-at alumnae gabfests, if not onstage-for Playwright Casey Kurtti to pretend to freshness. Alas, freshness-make that impudence-is all School Girls has going for it. The play's antireligious broadsides are clumsy enough to make the viewer resolve to take a nun to lunch...
Agnes of God, just opened on Broadway, begins with a grisly anecdote: a young nun gives birth in her convent, strangles the infant and stuffs it in a wastebasket. From this tabloid tale, John Pielmeier has fashioned a mystery play about an enduring theological riddle: the virgin birth. Who sired Sister Agnes' child? A visiting priest? A local farm hand? Perhaps God himself? To determine whether Agnes (Amanda Plummer) is fit to stand trial for the murder, the court appoints a psychiatrist, Dr. Martha Livingstone (Elizabeth Ashley), to examine her. Soon enough, Agnes' superior, Mother Miriam Ruth (Geraldine...