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Stern Stereotype. The saps are in full flood among the situation comedies too. Most cynical confection of the season is The Flying Nun (ABC), a mating of The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. Cutesy Star Sally Field, 21, plays a swinging nun whose starchy cornet launches her airborne in the wind cur rents around her Puerto Rican convent. Naturally, her antics appall the stern, stereotyped mother superior, but Sister Sally manages endless good works and bad gags, such as a crash landing in an Army garbage dump...
Thursday, September 7 THE FLYING NUN...
...novice nun who discovers that her wing-shaped cornet, mirabile dictu, is a perfect airfoil. The show will be cut to half an hour once Sister Bertrille gets airborne...
...maze - done by students at Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College un der the direction and guidance of Sister Mary Corita Kent, 49 - is the latest project of the nation's best-known teaching nun. Sister Corita's own vibrant silk-screen serigraphs have been pur chased by leading museums in Europe and the U.S., and last year were exhibited at 150 shows. Versatile and prolific, she did a large serigraph exhibit for the Vatican pavilion at the New York World's Fair, designed advertisements for Westinghouse, and gift wrapping for Neiman-Marcus. Her friends range from...
...Newfoundland and Iceland. The troupe is doing folk singing, modern-jazz dancing, sing-alongs, satirical skits and, our reporting indicates, living up to the way we described the girls of three years ago: "Vigorous and venturesome." In picking up that description for the title of Chapter 1 of GI Nun, Sister Xavier carefully added a word of her own: "Virtuous...