Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Working from a lively adaptation of William Wharton's admired 1978 novel, he has achieved his personal best. He has turned an ordinarily bleak Philadelphia location into something akin to the Prince of Darkness's castle. He has made his principal character, who might have been just another teen angel, into a complex figure, comical and a little dangerous. He has, finally, transcended realism without traducing it. His movie does what Birdy himself can never quite manage. It defies gravity, convention and category, and gets away with...
RACHMANINOFF: SYMPHONY NO. 2 (Angel). Simon Rattle leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a complete version of the romantic score...
...R.S.V.P. Without so much as a by-your-leave, he has crash-landed in Wisconsin and now has three days to get to Arizona, where the mother ship will pick him up, like Junior after the sock hop, and take him home. His cross-country guide and reluctant guardian angel is Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen), a young widow, who at first registers no small surprise on discovering that Starman has assumed human form by cloning the body of her late and much loved husband...
...overlaid with bold black dashes. "Miami Beach," by Spear, a partner in Florida's brash Arquitectonica firm, mixes soft-colored blobs and a bright red bar. Chicago's Tigerman, known for his theatrical home designs, created "Sunshine," in which bold colors interplay with a cartoon-cute pink angel. The elegant and evocative "Majestic," by Stern, a professor of architecture at Columbia University, combines art deco gilt ornament with a ruby-red rim. Meier's "Professor" barware employs etched lattices that suggest both Louis Tiffany and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; the motif is echoed on a dramatic...
...PLAY TRULY loses its '20s flavor and focus, however, when it comes time for Portia's suitors to compete for her hand in marriage: as the them song from. "The Dating Game" plays in the background, an emcee in a glittery silver suit and wide pink tie (David Angel) pulls a curtain to reveal three coffins, and welcomes a mob of cheering cast members to "Choose that Casket." Nerissa holds up an "Applause" sign. Here, the cast "deviates" from Shakespeare's script. After the emcee announces that the first contestant is the Prince of Morocco (Nestor Figueroa), he asks." Tell...