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...right, so it isn't exactly Hamlet. But did Hamlet have such cool character names? And did Hamlet have a hilarious subplot featuring a repressed Catholic schoolgirl named Sheila Stound (Richard Claflin, the president of the Theatricals) and a nagging nun named Sister Maticdestruction (Adam Geyer) who likes to hit things with her Bible? Things like slot machines...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Lotts of Fun in Las Vegas | 2/21/1992 | See Source »

...activists have stepped forward with new interpretations of the Virgin's life and works that challenge the notion of her as a passive handmaid of God's will and exemplar of some contested traditional family values. "Mary wants to get off the pedestal," says Kathy Denison, a former nun and current drug-and-alcohol counselor in San Francisco. "She wants to be a vital human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary: Handmaid Or Feminist? | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

Even when treating subject matter as weighty as religious prejudice, Joyce always embraces the reader with his humor--"it's very hard to bargain with that kind of woman. They say it was a nun who invented barbed wire...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Joyicity Makes the Nonsensical Accessible | 10/31/1991 | See Source »

...Nun with Anna Karina and Liselotte Pulver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...personages that rear up on the tiny horizon of Always the Best Man Wins, 1920. And sometimes it discloses an erotic fury, a Dionysiac madness bursting the collar studs and corsets of life, as in the collage-narrative The Dream of a Little Girl Who Wanted to Become a Nun, 1929-30. In a secular age with its "therapeutic" religions, we find it hard to imagine the power of blasphemy to the Surrealists. All the same, Ernst came up with the funniest antireligious joke in modern art -- the famous (and, alas, rarely seen) parody of a Renaissance Madonna, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: The Rebel Dreams of Oedipus Max | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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