Word: conventions
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Nolan is on a path increasingly well traveled. Across the country, Catholic monasteries and convents, usually regarded as strange or the stuff of medieval myth, are besieged with would-be retreatants and booked months in advance. "Please don't mention our name," begs an abbot at a Vermont monastery where the wait for one of its 29 spaces stretches a year. "We're overwhelmed." There is even a popular guidebook, Sanctuaries, that helps readers choose a great monastery or convent. While organized church retreats are not new, what is startling is that much of the increase is in individual retreatants...
DIED. MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN, 87, demure silver-screen actress who originated Tarzan's sarong-clad jungle-gal Jane; in Scottsdale, Ariz. The convent-educated colleen scandalized '30s audiences with her tree-house trysts. Though she appeared in some 60 films (Pride and Prejudice among them), to her dismay, O'Sullivan remained best known as homemaker for Johnny Weissmuller and his simian sidekicks--and for mothering a real-life brood of seven that included actress Mia Farrow...
...Ritz Hotel--was a plush ending that probably would not have been predicted for Chanel by the nuns in the Aubazine orphanage, where she spent time as a ward of the state after her mother died and her father ran off. No doubt the sisters at the convent in Moulins, who took her in when she was 17, raised their eyebrows when the young woman left the seamstress job they had helped her get to try for a career as a cabaret singer. This stint as a performer--she was apparently charming but no Piaf--led her to take...
...chapter describes the intrusion by the men of Ruby, Oklahoma--"the one all-black town worth the pain"--into a nearby former mission-school known colloquially as the Convent. Five women, fugitives each from justice, abuse or a lover's caprice, are living in the Convent at the moment when the men invade one morning and shoot them...
...They shot the white girl first...." Morrison narrated her story, which began deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, where men from the small town of Ruby--in defense of the "one all-black town worth the pain"--assault the nearby town of Convent and the women...