Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became pregnant in her convent and whose baby was mysteriously strangled just after birth. But the script's forays into the realm of allegory place a heavy burden on its dramatic content. Agnes (Amanda Plummer), the nun on trial for the murder of her child, and her Mother Superior (Geraldine Page) together represent faith; Dr. Martha Livingstone (Lee Remick), the psychiatrist assigned by the court to the case, embodies reason. The problem with the play lies in its clumsy handling of so diametric a dramatic opposition Perhaps because Pielmeier himself was born and raised a devout Catholic, his writing openly...
Page, a grande dame of the stage, shapes a Mother Superior who is at once completely convincing and utterly likeable. Pielmeler's firsthand experience of parochial schools obviously has served him well in one respect: he draws his nuns, if not his psychiatrists, clearly and beautifully. Intelligent, knowledgeable about the world outside the convent (she was married for over 20 years and bore two children). Mother Miriam holds to her faith more fiercely than a sheltered lifelong nun might. She believe she wants to believe not because she can conceive of no alternative...
...thoroughly wise woman, the Mother Superior remains aware of her self-imposed blinders and seeks an alternative justification for her faith. She wants a miracle, tangible proof that her choice was not wrong, in Agnes, Mother Miriam believes she has found that miracle. Agnes has at ethereally lovely singing voice--an apparent gift from the angels. She remains touchingly childlike, innocent of the facts of life, of her own body, of people. She is, Mother Miriam claims, a human being whose innate ties to God have not been sundered by the exigencies of life and fate...
...granted a divorce in Los Angeles owing to irreconcilable differences. There was, however, one nagging question: Who should get custody of their $2.5 million Hollywood Hills house? Majors demanded it, and Farrah's attorneys countered that she wanted it. Solomon might have split the home in two, but Superior Court Judge Harry T. Shafer couldn't decide and planned a visit to the home. Once outside the courtroom, the uncoupled couple chose to talk it over at a local cafe. Two hours and one dinner later, Majors determined that he would give the house to Farrah, declaring...
Although Busby is recovering from a stress fracture and Neuhauser--in Hunt's words, "might bust out,"--the Crimson sprinters will have to master some superior efforts to edge the strong Yale and Princeton squad...