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When Therese Martin died in 1897, she was an unknown nun of 24. She had lived 15 years at home with her father, nine more in the Carmelite cloister at Lisieux, France. She worked no eye-catching miracles, made no famous converts, succumbed to tuberculosis like many others of her time. Yet within 28 years of her death, Pope Pius XI had canonized Therese, and her artless autobiography, The Story of a Soul, had blossomed into one of the world's best-selling books...
...Like It does not put its actors in clown face or rely on a piece of white cloth to stand for everything from snowflakes to a marriage tent, as the Royal Shakespeare Company has done. Nor does Ashland's Measure for Measure turn the chaste novice nun Isabella into a marriage-minded maiden, winking at having got her man, as New York Shakespeare Festival Director Joseph Papp did last summer in Central Park. The result is that Ashland's interpretations are rarely revelatory -- but just as rarely misguided...
Acting captivates Sheedy, and she wants to play everything "from a nun to a safari adventurer to a peasant girl to Lady Macbeth." She can't, however, imagine herself trying something as difficult as Meryl Streep's tour de force in Sophie's Choice. "I don't think I could play a sex-starved rock singer," she speculates, pausing to see how that possibility strikes her listener. Then, grinning, she changes her mind: "But maybe I could." She is on view in two fairly routine films released this month, Blue City, a thriller in which she plays Judd Nelson...
...defense claimed that the Government had violated the First Amendment rights of the defendants by sending informers into their religious meetings and secretly tape-recording their conversations. The defense also managed to establish that the defendants -- a nun, two priests, a minister and seven lay workers -- were hardly criminal types. Whatever the verdict, the trial apparently has strengthened rather than discouraged the sanctuary movement. Partly because of the publicity surrounding the case, 16 U.S. cities and the state of New Mexico have proclaimed their territories sanctuaries for anyone fleeing political repression or armed conflict in any Central American nation...
...when she is allowed to go out shopping: "Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us. The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full." The image of a scarlet nun seems appropriate to her role in this strange new society. Once a month, during the Ceremony, Offred has sex with her Commander. She lies between the legs of the Commander's wife, "my head on her stomach, her pubic bone under the base of my skull, her thighs on either...