Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sandinistas and today live in exile. The men are Arturo Cruz, the former junta member and Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington who quit in November 1981; Alfredo César, who like Cruz was once head of the central bank, and two other former government officials, Leonel Poveda and Angel Navarro. Though they are not affiliated with the anti-Sandinista guerrilla movements and in fact are calling for a "nonviolent" settlement to the fighting, the four have close ties with some factions of the Nicaraguan opposition, including the guerrillas, and might be able to hold out for terms that could...
...Whitney show (which travels over the next year to museums in Minneapolis, Chicago and San Francisco) will undoubtedly create even loopier bids for the few works in Wood's small mature oeuvre that are not already in museums. It seems felicitous that Grant Wood's reviving angel, the art historian who has worked on him for a decade and who curated this fascinating show, should bear the name Wanda Corn. Moreover, the time is ripe. Once again, Americans are bemused by the deflation of their dreams. As it was in the '30s, the ethos that linked virtue...
Names conjured more romance then. Jess Willard was the Pottawatomie Giant. Georges Carpentier was the Orchid Man. Luis Angel Firpo, the Argentine, was the Wild Bull of the Pampas. Those were Dempsey's great foes. Knocked clear through the ropes by Firpo in the second round, Dempsey came back to floor the Wild Bull an eighth, ninth and tenth time...
...never heard before and was not to hear anywhere else for some time. Years before Elvis Presley tumbled America into moral crisis by appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show, that they Boston radio station played Black rock and roll. The real stuff: Bo Diddley, Little Richard, "Earth Angel...
...decade Kleist had proposed suicide pacts to friends. Finally, at 34, he found a woman who said yes. Henriette Vogel had a long, pointed nose, pockmarked cheeks, insolent eyes and cancer of the uterus. Kleist, who probably died a virgin, loved her as his angel of death...