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...although the extreme conservatism of a nun's life may seem wholly countercultural for young American women today, that is exactly what attracts many of them, say experts and the women themselves. "Religious life itself is a radical choice," says Brother Paul Bednarczyk, executive director of the National Religious Vocation Conference in Chicago. "In an age where our primary secular values are sex, power and money, for someone to choose chastity, obedience and poverty is a radical statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Nun Has A Veil--And A Blog | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

...wish, playing a prostitute loudly giving birth on a Madrid city bus in Live Flesh. Then the director, whose films are populated by heroic transvestites and lovable hookers, cast her in another memorable maternity part in All About My Mother, in 1999, this time as a pregnant, HIV-positive nun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Pedro Rescued Penelope | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

Authentic and charming in her own language, Cruz became self-conscious and mousy in English. In 2005's Sahara, she played a doctor searching for a lost Civil War ship in, yes, the Sahara. (And you thought the pregnant nun was far-fetched.) Sahara was yet another wretched film that led to another high-profile offscreen romance for Cruz, who ended up dating co-star Matthew McConaughey for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Pedro Rescued Penelope | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...American reputation as the Japanese Walt Disney. Though it retains Tezuka's core interest in the karmic consequences of immoral behavior, in this particular book he seems to take a strange pleasure in depicting the worst of human nature. How else do explain scenes like a dog-faced former nun being raped by her physician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horror Tales from the Far East | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...enthusiastic crowd gathered at the Coop to watch Kallaugher demonstrate his caricature techniques. He first drew a singing nun he had as a teacher in grade school, followed by former Vice President Al Gore ’69, John Kerry, and George H.W. Bush...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alum Sketches Future of Political Toons | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

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