Word: angeles
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Need spiritual help in stealing a woman's garter? Try a prayerful summons to the angel Baltazard, who, according to the Jewish cabala, has a special gift for such pranks. In case he fails, other spirits might help-perhaps Vassago, an angel with unique ability to ferret out a lady's secrets...
Holder of the Keys. Although Jesus frequently encountered angels-such as the ones who ministered to him after the 40 days' fast in the desert-the Bible mentions only three by name. By common agreement of angelologists, these three-Michael, Gabriel and Raphael-rank at the very top of God's celestial hierarchy. Michael, whose heavenly hosts tumbled Satan and his evil legions into hell, is the holder of the keys to heaven. Gabriel presides over paradise and, according to none other than Mohammed, was the angel who at God's command dictated the Koran. Raphael...
...Mouths. Throughout history, artists have been content to portray angels as slightly girlish young men in white robes and eagle-sized wings. The tradition does less than justice to some of the more majestic celestial creatures-especially those recorded in Islamic folklore. The Angel of Mohammed, for example, has 70,000 heads, each of which has 70,000 faces, each face having 70,000 mouths, each mouth 70,000 tongues, each tongue capable of speaking 70,000 languages-all the better to praise...
DONIZETTI: L'ELISIR D'AMORE (2 LPs; Angel). The Elixir of Love is an 1832 comic opera that is a delightful collection of bouncy silliness couched in florid melody. Mirella Freni and Nicolai Gedda reproduce their entrancing Metropolitan Opera performances of two seasons ago, and they are complemented by the astonishing bass of Renato Capecchi, who combines unbelievable agility with mahogany-like richness in the role of a quack selling a love potion...
...pretty Negro who is Milwaukee's only black alderman, has five times proposed that such a measure be debated by the 19-member common council; each time she was put down by a vote of 18 to 1. Groppi leaped into the issue like an avenging angel. As a result, says U.S. Representative Clem Zablocki, who speaks in Congress for most of Milwaukee's South Side, much of the city has become "not so much anti-Negro as anti-Groppi...