Word: angel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less than 37 former lifetimes. She spoke of the days when she was a scullery maid to George Eliot, a transvestite surgeon in ancient Greece, even the mother of Mary Magdalene (Jesus Christ, she recalled, had golden red hair and "when he speaks it is as if an angel speaks"). After reading Steam's book, Miss Caldwell sounded a little puzzled. "I do not believe in reincarnation. However, I am grateful for the experience. If nothing else, it has given me material for a new novel...
...ridiculous. I think a woman wants to be dominated by a man. Men are much cleverer than women. A dominating woman cannot be happy"). About the film directors she has most enjoyed working with (Josef von Sternberg, Billy Wilder and Orson Welles). About The Blue Angel, the film that sent her to America ("I thought everything we were doing was awful. They kept a camera pointed on me here." She points to her groin. "I was so young and dumb...
...never does in public, there is a slight bulge around the middle. Still, she is a very good-looking 70, and her magnificently alluring voice is ageless. If she no longer looks like Cocteau's Lorelei, she still sounds like her-or the Lola Lola of The Blue Angel and the Frenchy of Destry Rides Again. That alone may be enough to make her special one of the brighter hours of the TV season...
...Lawrence Hill, a member of Harvard Campus Ministries and a spokesman for the committee, chastised President Nixon as an "angel of death" who "humiliates the people of Vietnam and the people of America...
...many Angel LPs attest (notably the Bach Flute Sonatas with Harpsichordist George Malcolm), Shaffer is thoroughly at home in the recording studio. "Making a recording is like taking your stage makeup off," she says. "For example, the same tempi that work well before an audience tend to sound too slow coming from a disk. The same is true of dynamics. You can't be as loud, and you can't be as soft." Wherever she is playing, Shaffer tries to preserve the feeling that she is singing instead of merely blowing. That helps explain why she watches...