Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lovers, Gaylord Ravenal and Magnolia Hawks, hold their trysts. The second act is set in turn-of-the-century Chicago, the centerpiece being the Palmer House Hotel. But here, too, the set undergoes a series of eye-popping transformations, conjuring up scenes as divergent as the gate of a convent and the glitzy interior of the Trocadero Night Club before flipping back to Main Street. The passing of time from 1889 to 1921 is ingeniously marked by the use of the Palmer Hotel's revolving door, the headlines at a newsstand and the changing attire and manners of the Chicago...
Like many medical researchers, Snowdon has cultivated an affectionate, intensely personal relationship with his subjects, all members of a Roman Catholic religious order, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Before his group publishes a new paper, Snowdon carefully makes the rounds of all the convents to make sure the sisters hear the news first. About a month ago, for example, he stopped by the rambling brick convent in Mankato, Minnesota, which serves as the headquarters for one of the order's seven U.S. provinces. "You've got to be good friends before you ask somebody for their brain," he jokes...
...when he approached the order's U.S. leaders with a sensitive question. Would the nuns be willing to do more than take psychological tests and give blood samples? he wondered. Would they be willing to donate their brains? Like a politician campaigning for votes, Snowdon traveled from one convent to the next, making his pitch. In Baltimore, Maryland, he remembers, Sister Mary was the first to endorse the project. "Sign me up!" she said. In the end, 678 nuns who were 75 or older enlisted. To them, participating in the study seemed an extension of their mission to care...
...Walt Disney. Caselotti possessed a similar innocence about the outside world when she was picked at the age of 17 to bring Snow White to life for a whirlwind adventure with Seven Little Dwarfs and an evil stepmother. In a 1993 interview, Caselotti, who was educated in a convent outside of Rome, said that she didn't even realize she was working on Disney's first feature-length production until the movie's star-studded premiere. Paid $970 for her role in making the lighthearted Snow White part of American movie folklore, Caselotti never saw her career venture much beyond...
...Torre has a face like...well, like the gift his sister gave him when she went into the convent in 1951. "She gave me a baseball glove, a Rawlings," the New York Yankees manager recalled a few days before he was to lead his team into its 34th World Series but his first. "She told me to say an Our Father every time I put the glove on, figuring if she gave me rosary beads, I'd never...