Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bernard Walsh, an apologetic theologian, travels with his father to the island to visit the dying Ursula, his great-aunt, and to wind up her affairs. Jack, Bernard's father, hasn't seen his sister in years, and Bernard induces him to come only by the vague intimation that Ursula's fortune awaits an inheritor...
...direction is inconsistent, too. Some scenes--such as when Paul's sister Elsie) Jennifer Giering) ignores Paul and searches for her favorite talk show-- display flawless, meticulous staging. Other scenes are just plain careless. In Act One, two movers (Steve Peterson and Jonathan Weinberg) effortlessly lift boxes, but Peterson complains that he is exhausted from lifting them...
...Lange gives Blanche an initial strength that makes her breakdown all the more overpowering, and provides the few moments of real magic, describing the breakup of her family home and her hopeless marriage to a closeted homosexual. These scenes, however, are with Amy Madigan, able if stolid as her sister Stella, and Timothy Carhart, woefully miscast but game as the amiable lug Blanche beguiles. The real fault lies with director Gregory Mosher, who achieves the languorous pace of a New Orleans summer -- but not the steam. W.A.H...
Boles also discusses scripture with students and counsel them about "the whole range of things college students are concerned with", said Sister Mary Karen Powers, also a chaplain as the center...
Perhaps. But there is definitely a "Mormon mystique," Rogers says. Although "you can't tell them from anyone else," Young Mormon women are perceived as more cleancut and all-American than their East Coast sister, according to Rogers. "Utah catches their eye," she says. "They think, `Mormon...