Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McNally's Texas family, his father Hubert was a wholesale beverage distributor; mother Dorothy worked as an accountant. In school, Terrence's passion was opera. "An Ursuline nun played records for us," he says, "and I loved it from the start." He is a noted opera prince -- a regular panelist on the Metropolitan Opera radio quiz -- with a huge record collection: "I could never play it all in my lifetime." From this fascination came his higher- than-camp opera fantasia, The Lisbon Traviata (1985), and a play in the works, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), about Bellini...
...Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, so a wary male critic is at least prepared for the film's politically correct earnestness. One of the group, Natalie (JoBeth Williams), is a movie critic who raises money to make a film about homeless women. Another, Maggie (Talia Shire), is a nun who faces a spiritual crisis after she helps a woman get an abortion. There are lesbian revelations, a discussion of the Anita Hill hearings and rampant man bashing. Rheza (Lindsay Crouse) has been dumped by her husband and bears a grudge. Hannah (Helen Slater) is married to Natalie's ex-husband...
...controversy that has anguished Catholics and Jews for nearly a decade ended with the departure of the last Carmelite nun from a convent adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where more than 1 million Jews were slaughtered. When the convent opened in 1984, in a building once used to store poison gas, Jewish organizations around the world protested that this Roman Catholic presence was inappropriate at the very gates of a place of such particularly solemn significance to Jews. Pope John Paul II ordered the nuns to move out in April...
...college a few years ago, West was pulled over by a cop who figured him for a drug runner because of his flashy clothes, jewelry and sporty Camaro. When West protested that he was in fact a professor of religion, the officer scoffed, "Yeah, and I'm the flying nun. Let's go, nigger," and hauled him off to jail. It took a phone call to the college to secure West's release...
...Marit Haahr), a former classmate from St. Patrick's Grammar School and the woman of his dreams. The seeming coincidence of their encounter is belied by Meredith's suspicious behavior, her intrusive questions (prepared beforehand on index cards) and her subsequent attempt to seduce Danny--actions ill-befitting a nun. Haahr is best when she play light-heartedly with her role, delightfully mixing sarcasm and naivete, seductiveness and innocence. Her dizzy ramblings and confused fumbling with her ever-present index cards are endearing...