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...bitter about Broderson's vision of the world, but he is drawn to themes of sadness and is fascinated by ritual. Just as he may portray a tale of rape and murder that has been repeated century after century by the Kabuki players of Japan, as in The Nun and the Skull, so he is drawn to the bull rings, where year after year man and beast have performed their ballet with death. Then he might do a painting of a little girl listening to "the sound of flowers," or of two praying nuns, one of whom seeks...
...handbag to ankle bracelet, loiters in her doorway next to the Hôtel Beau Séjour. There will be no séjour today, however; on the hotel's door a tiny sign reads: "Closed for vacation." In another of Sivard's pictures, a Parisian nun is emerging from a Metro station with the frosted-glass peacock's fan of the canopy forming a sort of art nouveau halo behind the good sister's head...
...from Los Angeles to San Diego, was blotched by fog. As state cops later reconstructed it, a woman driver pulled part way off the freeway with a flat tire-setting off a chain reaction that piled car upon car for five miles. The toll: one dead (a nun riding in a car about a mile back from the first crash), two critically injured. 24 in the hospital, 25 others slightly injured. 20 cars demolished. 40 cars disabled and at least 200 cars involved...
Like Roman Catholic sisters and nuns, Protestant women seeking the religious life have a wide range of vocations to choose from. There are cloistered Benedictine convents in the Church of England whose nuns attend daily Mass and recite the monastic Divine Office in English. U.S. Methodist deaconesses, on the other hand, take no vows, dress in the latest fashions (if they care to), follow no rule, and work at such chores as teaching Sunday school and visiting the sick. Coming somewhere in between are the majority of Lutheran and Reformed deaconesses: most wear some sort of distinctive garb halfway between...
Ecumenical Women. Many Anglican nuns are frank to admit their debt to Roman. Catholic orders. Says one mother superior: "There's hardly any difference, fundamentally, between Anglican and Catholic nuns except that they are under the Pope and we are not." Most Lutheran deaconesses, even those who wear habits, are quick to emphasize the differences between their own work and that of Catholic sisterhoods. Says Sister Falk: "We are similar and different. But when some one asks me, 'Is it like being a Catholic nun?', my standard answer is, 'I really don't know...