Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exterminating Angel. In a vast town house, a group of Mexico's beautiful people attend a formal dinner party. Clacking across marble floors, exchanging big smiles and small talk, they radiate the feeling that throughout their hermetically sealed world, all is well...
Unfortunately, like his targets, Bunuel has aged poorly. His images no longer shock, his attacks, in the era of black humor, seem peculiarly tame and tepid. Manifestly, he intended Angel to fly on several levels. It could be a metaphor of proliferating fascism, as in Camus' The Plague. Or it could be a restatement of the theme of No Exit, Sartre's trapped-in-a-room drama: hell is other people...
...Angel of Destruction. For a time Stauffenberg tried to serve that new order. Fighting for his Fuhrer in the Afrika Korps, he lost his right hand and two fingers of his left, and was posted to the general staff. His work at the highest level convinced him at last that he was serving a vicious criminal cause Rapidly he found himself one of a number of German officers and influential civilians who felt that German honor -not to speak of Europe itself-could survive only if Hitler were overthrown and peace negotiated. Stauffenberg personally enlisted many friends in a conspiracy...
December in Missouri and the Angel of Frost has come...
After the Passover of the Angel of Frost...