Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Simon Wiesenthal is the avenging angel of the Holocaust. For almost half of his 73 years, operating from a cramped, three-room office in Austria, he has run war criminals to earth. A Holocaust research institute in Los Angeles bears his name, and celebrities rush to salute his work. Frank Sinatra's tribute is typical: "I would gladly give up every song I ever sang to rest my head on the pillow of your accomplishments...
Many of the stories Luciano tells of his days on the field center around blunders he embarrassed himself with One time he heaved his substantial body back and forth between the bases with a California Angel during a run-down, admirably trying to make sure he had a good angle on the tag. All his good intentions were for naught, however, when he very ungracefully coffided with the runner, sending them both sprawling. In another game he was umpiring the third-base line when the visiting team hit a long fly ball that sailed toward the bleachers. Luciano sprinted toward...
Ding! A flash of light and a little white angel on your left shoulder asks, "Didn't they just discuss this at the meeting this morning? You wouldn't, would...
...metal foil and kraft paper. The effect, twinkling and blazing under the museum lights, is of quite breathtaking intensity: the gold and silver may be only foil, but they go beyond rococo incrustation into a domain of absolute theatricality. Hampton's vision contains not one depiction of an angel or a saint, let alone Jesus; this, however, is the source of its power, since the Throne is an empty stage set, literally waiting to be peopled by visitations more real to the artist than the brick wall of the garage...
...replicates in loving detail Smith's own antique bed, complete with details like hand-painted flowers and gold leaf. The master builder is sedately curled up on a plush flower-print couch in an upstairs parlor. Now seven months pregnant, she radiates a warmth well beyond her Charlie's Angel image. Her skin is flawless, her eyes full of the clear California light and her manner exasperatingly placid. She and third husband Cinematographer Tony Richmond (The Greek Tycoon), 39, married last August. "I'm very old-fashioned," says the Houston dentist's daughter. "I've wanted babies ever since...