Word: angel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposition, is usually considered a form of gambling insanity. Not so last week at New York's Aqueduct race track. There, a $2 win bet on the same jockey in each of eight races on the same afternoon would have paid off $56. The jockey was Angel Cordero Jr., who has been almost unbeatable since the opening of Aqueduct's spring meeting last month. In 15 days of racing at the "Big A," Cordero has ridden 48 winners and finished in the money in 88 out of 112 races. Last Wednesday, in driving rain, he won the first...
...Cocteau's "tragedy" is essentially no different from the ancient Greek myth: the poet, Orpheus, retrieves his bride from the Underworld on the condition that he won't look into her face, or she'll die a second time. Of course he does--as the couple's guardian angel, Heurtebise, remarks quite matter-of-factly, "It was inevitable...
...COMIC STREAK spikes the play, and often parodies the deathly drama Heurtebise, being an angel, is fairly immune to tragedy, so he can draw laughter without seeming indiscreet. When Orpheus returns from hell, the angel hustles to his side in breathless anticipation, exclaiming that he's "dying to hear about your trip!" Some of Heurtebise's lines could easily fall flat when the humor wanes transparent, but A.S. Birsh never leaves you in doubt as to his character's utter naivete, and the risky bits slip by quite smoothly...
...might have added, the childhood as well. "I was a shy, ugly kid who led a big fantasy life," Cher, who was christened Cherlin, recalls. "I thought I was an angel from heaven sent to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did it, I was really pissed off." Even before that she was trying to woo the world through performance. "From the time I could talk, I began to sing. Singing just came from the inside-something I'd do without thinking whenever I felt good or was really blue. Dancing? Well, it released my tensions...
...lack of food in the Stalag had caused Messaien to have a hallucination of "the rainbow of the Angel amid strange shifting colors"--the destroying angel from the Book of Revelations who announces the "end of time" at the apocalypse. This vision, embodying the extreme terror of the end of the world and the perfect peace that must follow is the essence of this remarkable piece. With his highly individual blend of Hindu rhythms, natural sounds like bird songs, and suggestive harmonic textures. Messaien has created music of the greatest emotional power that is at the same time an expression...