Word: conventional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this coming-of-age comedy based on a Maeve Binchy novel, the cutest, nicest guy at Dublin's Trinity College (Chris O'Donnell) falls in love with a convent-educated country shopkeeper's daughter (Minnie Driver). To him, she's beautiful, no matter how ungainly she thinks she is. And she sees beyond his good looks to the insecure and awkward boy beneath the facade. "Their sweet, determined, gently understated struggle for fulfillment in a superstitiously conservative society makes this movie a quiet joy to behold," says TIME critic Richard Schickel...
...became mayor of Boston in 1906, was the quintessential ward politician: he joined every club, attended every wedding, wept at every wake and kept Rose, his favorite child, close by his side. Though Rose had wanted to attend Wellesley, her parents dispatched her and her sister Agnes to a convent in the Netherlands. In the beginning, she was desperately lonely, but eventually she ``was able to find in myself the place that was meant for God,'' she later said. For the rest of her life, her faith sustained her, and she attended daily Mass for as long as her health...
...DIED. JAMES GRANT, 72, impassioned director of UNICEF since 1980; of cancer, two days after resigning for health reasons; in Mount Kosco, New York. Under his leadership of unicef, the percentage of children immunized in the developing world rose from 20% to 80%. He helped formulate the 1989 U.N. Convention of the Rights of the Child, which recognized the political and economic rights of children. Grant received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994. DIED. ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY, 104, matriarch of America's foremost political family, whose indomitable will and unshakable faith sustained her through the many tragedies that...
...description of how to sit a hen and how to candle an egg. The remnant of civilized life that every woman sought was a bolt of Liberty fabric. Lessing apparently has a formidable sense of smell. Before easy dry cleaning, everybody's clothes smelled bad. Nuns -- she attended a convent school for a while -- smelled even worse...
...painted at the top of the gallery walls tells whether there's any truth to legends about Gardner: "True: the attracted so much attention that the seats in the Boston Music hall without a view of her were sold at a reduced price," or "Maybe: she climbed out a convent school window in Paris to elope with Jack Gardner," or "False: she strolled pet lions down Beacon Street." But don't let such intriguing facts about the lady let you lose sight of Gardner's most important role personally and historically: that of a patron and collector...