Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City last spring. The story told of a Queens high school honor student, three weeks away from graduation, who dropped off his date after a prom and then, while walking home, was shot to death on a quiet street. A week later, one of his three young assailants - Angel Claudio, a 16-year-old tenth-grade dropout - found a lawyer in the Yellow Pages and surrendered to police, admitting that he had accidentally shot the victim with a .38-cal. pistol when the student resisted an attempt to take his ring. Within a few days, one of the accomplices...
...Angel Live is the title of this doomed show. Jaclyn Smith is pursuing a villain who has robbed a client of $200,000, but when she tries to question him, he shoots her. Right in the head. Screams. A smear of blood beside the right ear. So they rush her to the hospital, and there, as one of the studio memos puts it, "the other Angels and Bosley reminist [sic] about their experiences...
German cinema has given the world a cast of characters as varied as the diabolical Dr. Caligari and the sultry chanteuse of Blue Angel. But none was ever quite like the film heroine that has recently drawn West German audiences to the movies in droves-Christiane F.: We Children from the Zoo Station. The protagonist starts off as a teen-age prostitute and drug addict who haunts the squalid fringes of West Germany's affluent society. On the screen, when she is not listening to David Bowie tapes in the labyrinthine subway corridors of the station near Berlin...
...went touring the country as the Miniature King of Swing. The king was soon deposed, however. Bookings became scarce after a couple of years, and Bobby returned to Danville to finish high school. After that, it was back to the piano and the saloons of Chicago, and then Los Angeles, where he stayed, off and on, for more than a decade. He made one brief foray to New York, but he did not do well at the old Blue Angel nightclub and, nursing his hurt pride, retreated west again. "The most burning desire I had," he says, "was to come...
...less and less for the campesinos. Finally the owners stripped the plantation, shipping out the fertilizer, selling off the cattle, dismantling the machinery. When land reform came to the Finca Florencia, as Ehrlich put it, "all we had to give to the campesinos was the land itself." Now Angel's legacy-the fertile, volcanic soil as well as the shuttered house, the cracked, weed-filled swimming pool and the primitive courtyard workrooms-belongs to the great-grandchildren of those who labored to build them...