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...Belgian-born nun, whose very name bespeaks Christmas, is the only missionary among the 10,000 garbage pickers of the Egyptian capital. They are untouchables who live in what amounts to perpetual serfdom, bequeathing their trade and squalor to succeeding generations. The garbage pickers stay alive by sorting through the refuse that is hauled out from the city in creaking donkey carts. The ragged men and women save the bottles and tin cans to be sold, and feed the slop to the pigs who live with them. Infant mortality in the community is an appalling...
...American Folk Dolls (Knopf; 133 pages; $14.95 paperback) from museum and private collections, including her own. Among the finds: a simple cloth child in a beautifully detailed gown, the product of someone's exquisite needlework; an Indian doll caught between two cultures, dressed in buckskin, but with a nun's veil; Eskimos in sealskin, their curved ivory faces true to tribal doll convention: smiles for the boys, frowns for the girls. These miniatures are more than mere playthings. Black dolls of the South were owned by the children of slaves; after the Civil War, dolls were made with...
...niece (Betsy Brantley), who are on a climbing holiday in the Swiss Alps in the 1930s. Their guide (Lambert Wilson) restores them to moral health, but nothing can rescue the movie from the prissy pictorialism of Director Fred Zinnemann (in a big step down from High Noon and A Nun's Story) and the frigid portentousness of the script...
...just my little joke.) Instead, some movie people have made a big expensive picture about, get this, an American priest who finances the papacy with money he got from the Mafia. He also has a real steamy love affair with a French lady who is studying to be a nun. And, on top of that, this scheming monsignor is played by Christopher Reeve-that's right, Superman-so he's supposed to be a kind of nice, charming guy. Now I hear that concerned Americans of every religious persuasion are trying to fight this movie by laughing...
Back in Africa, Milingo began praying for cures of ailing supplicants, and soon hundreds were reporting miracles. One American nun, Frances Randall, a psychology lecturer in Nairobi, says she was cured of a painful broken coccyx bone. Cure-seekers streamed to Lusaka from across Africa, and Milingo healed others in the U.S. and Europe. When he attended an African bishops' conference, the sick congregated outside the hall...