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...with his family when Plains became a place to see, and now he is. For the wedding, cars jammed the farm land below the house, and vans hauled guests up the hill. Beyond the pool were tables of food (roast beef, lobster balls) and booze (California pink champagne, Blue Nun wine, Billy Beer and gallons of harder stuff). A large aluminum boat was packed with ice and jammed with wine and champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Big Bash at Billy's Place | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Thousands of Bostonians strolled on the Common among a ten-man jazz band, clowns and belly dancers. In New York City, where the celebration was organized by Robert Redford's wife Lola, about 500 people at the United Nations Plaza droned an appropriate mantra at dawn: "Sun-nun-nun-nua ..." In Greenwich Village, eighth-grade students from St. Luke's School cooked chocolate-chip cookies and hot dogs on solar grills; at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Omega Liturgical Dance Company re-enacted a Renaissance ceremony in which a ball symbolizing the sun is passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Having Fun with the Sun | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...some argue, is in the business of being dimwitted. It often presents just as distorted a picture of whites as of blacks. Does it make sense to complain about the unreality of black characters when whites on TV have for years been implicated in such efforts as The Flying Nun and The Love Boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Blacks on TV: A Disturbing Image | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Besides being addicted to morphine -drug abuse is a serious criminal offense in Belgium-Sister Godfrida was reputed to have carried on sexual relationships simultaneously with a retired missionary priest and with another nun who taught school in Wetteren. Her affairs were kept out of the public eye, but other members of her community knew about them. She and the teaching nun shared an expensively decorated apartment near the hospital. They frequently dined out together in the best restaurants; at other times, merchants recalled, they had expensive cuts of meat, fresh seafood and vintage wines delivered to their apartment. Sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Nun's Story | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...Sister Godfrida's peccadilloes escape the attention of officials? Dr. De Corte, who instigated the investigation that uncovered the murders, suggested that there had been a conspiracy of silence about the nun. She had finally been suspended last August and dispatched to a Ghent hospital, where she underwent an unsuccessful drug cure. Someone -police suspect the roommate, who visited her at the hospital-provided drugs during her stay. At a press conference, Dr. De Corte revealed that in January, when she returned unchanged, the geriatric-ward nurses decided to confront the hospital administrator with their growing diary of horrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Nun's Story | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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