Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outings, Rosebud (1975) struck few sparks and Heaven's Gate (1980) dropped a megaton bomb. Undaunted, Huppert is trying English again. Cactus, an Australian drama, opens in October, and she just finished shooting a mystery in Baltimore called The Bedroom Window. She plays a sultry, sophisticated woman, a "black angel," as she puts it, who cheats on her husband and fails to report a crime because it might reveal her affair. After many roles as a youthful seductress, Huppert welcomes the change of face. "My characters were more childish in my other movies," she says. "In The Bedroom Window...
...alone, facing an urban wilderness." A more precise definition of the breed came naturally enough from Chandler, the American-born, British-educated creator of Philip Marlowe, the detective who got more similes to the mile than anybody before or since ("as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food"). Laid down in his essay The Simple Art of Murder, Chandler's description of the fictional American detective has the power of an ecclesiastical oath: "He is a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man or he could...
...communities," mostly poor, urban religious groups without priests. The breakaways find the Cardinal's anti-Communism counterproductive and are put off by his insistence that the church, while obligated to take moral positions, must refrain from active political engagement. "The Catholic institution here is folkloric," says the Rev. Miguel Angel Casco, co-director of a pro-government religious think tank. "The revolution cannot make the new man without the church...
...Nigel Holmes (Executive Director); Dorothy D. Chapman, Anthony J. Libardi, Irene Ramp (Deputies); Arthur Hochstein, Renee Klein, Leonard S. Levine, Billy Powers, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Carol March (Designer); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: Steve Conley (Chief), John P. Dowd (Deputy), Angel Ackemyer, Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, James Elsis, Jay Petrow, Nomi Silverman, Kenneth Smith, Eugene Tick Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...
...there were even murmurs of dissent from Aquino's inner circle. Under the new constitution, said one minister, "we have the same situation as before --the concentration of power in one person, even though that person happens to be an angel or a saint." Other loyalists were disgruntled that the new plan had been drawn up by a very small group of counselors working independently of the Cabinet. "I have strong reservations about this," protested Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel. "I was never consulted." Even Vice President Salvador Laurel was not fully involved in determining the contents of the final...