Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congressman and the priest are cut from the same cloth, a take-off on Watergate that uses a religious framework should have great potential. But Michael Lindsay-Hogg's film Nasty Habits relies too much on an ornamental frame--the format of transplanting the Watergate scenario to a Philadelphia convent--and leaves only a blank canvas for content...
...THIS UNSCATHING satire, Glenda Jackson is running for abbess of the convent against Felicity (Susan Penhaligon), a young nun who preaches a platform of free love. With the help of her Haldeman-Ehrlichman like cronies (Geraldine Page and Anne Jackson), Jackson engineers a scheme to record her rival's conversations and steal love letters from her sewing basket. Naturally, the Jesuits hired to filch the evidence are caught in the act, and the nuns decide on cover-up rather than confession...
...while, Linda continued to do what was expected of her. She put in a season as a debutante in Tucson and a semester at the University of Arizona. "The big goals with the girls I grew up with were going into a convent or getting married," she says. "I never wanted either one. I just wanted to go on the road." When she was 18, she left home and headed for Los Angeles to crash in the same house as a guitar player named Bob Kimmel...
...twelve murders sprang from some aspect of the oppression of women. Euphemie Lacoste, victim of an arranged marriage, was accused of poisoning her husband in 1844. While the bourgeoisie in the reign of Louis Philippe prattled of love matches, Euphemie's father signed a marriage contract for his convent-bred 22-year-old daughter. The husband was Henri Lacoste, the girl's 68-year-old great-uncle, who was riddled with syphilis...
...major demands by young demonstrators in last year's riots in Soweto and other black townships, which left 500 dead. Blacks able to afford a good education have been pressing to enter the nation's 169 private schools. Says one colored girl in a newly integrated convent school in Johannesburg: "I feel I'm really getting an education now. Going to school before was just an exercise...