Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York show-biz world: in a Coney Island of the mind where Anna Antonelli's roller-skating rink is about to be demolished, and with it Anna's sour memories of life with her runaway Lothario of a husband and her painfully shy daughter Angel. Terrence McNally's script might suggest a domestic minidrama swathed in poignancy-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn mixed with Terms of Endearment. But from the moment the curtain rises on Peter Larkin's cathedral of a roller rink, the spectator knows he is in for 2½ hours of big themes...
Harvard student composers, actors, and technicians worked with the playwrights. Students assisted with research for the script, based on a Mormon legend involving the story of an angel who falls from heaven and lands in Utah, according to Orchard...
...found the color barrier even harder to penetrate. He landed a factory job by pretending to speak pidgin English-"Me good worker, guv'nor. Give me job." When his opportunity finally came, he was almost too alienated to recognize it, but he rewarded that first real employer ("an angel") with exceptionally hard work...
...High Renaissance, a painting that almost (but not quite) ruptures its own decorum in the interests of poetry: the Virgin, momentarily out of her wits, cringes before the prospect of divine insemination, while God makes ready to descend from the sky like a high diver; the ethereal angel, pale blue and ivory, gestures threateningly; a tabby cat arches its back in terror, as well it might...
After Alexander the Great took Sardis in 334 B.C., Greek architecture and Hellenic culture predominated. Later development took place under Roman rule and in Byzantine times Sardis became an early center of Christianity. The "angel of the church in Sardis" is mentioned in the book of Revelations: recent excavations have uncovered the remains of a forth-century basilica...