Word: angel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...written a narration based on the Gospels and put together a tape of selections from Handel and Berlioz, which they played for John Lavender, the soft-spoken pastor of the First Baptist Church. He was quickly sold on the idea of a pageant, and soon found an anonymous angel who put up $20,000 to get production started...
...Complete Polonaises (Garrick Ohlsson, Angel; $11.98). Ohlsson, 25, is a big man (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.), with the requisite mass and muscle for epic works such as the Polonaise in A-Flat Major; yet he is a sensitive colorist. But maybe he ought to wait until he has a stomachache before he next records the gloomy C minor; his performance is positively joyful with the exuberance of his youthful talent...
...Seal, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Room Service, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15; SAT. Wild Strawberries, 2:35, 6, 9:25; Rules of the Game, 4:10, 7:35; SUN. Virgin Spring, 3:20, 6:45, 10:10; Grand Illusion, 1:30, 4:55, 8; MON. Blue Angel, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Le Jour Se Leve, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15; TUE. Ivan the Terrible, I, 2:15, 5:20, 8:25; Ivan the Terrible...
...tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself in an attic. It should be better known. Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel takes place in a German cabaret between the wars. It was Marlene Dietrich's first film, and as Lola the vamp she sings cabaret songs. Many people think The Grand Illusion the best film ever made; I wouldn't put it that high, but it is undoubtedly a great film...
Here is Miguel Angel Asturias, the leftist, Nobel-prizewinning novelist (El Señor Presidente, The Green Pope), relaxing over tea in his Paris home and recalling his 1920s youth in dictator-ridden Guatemala. The leaders, he says, "kept themselves hidden, spinning evil from secret corners like spiders." In protest, he created his "literature of commitment" to call attention to poverty and death on banana plantations and in quebracho forests...