Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film mixes memory and fantasy with the surreal-life present. Its visual style is a gloss on 8½'s: seductive black-and-white images, express-train pacing, a foregrounding of comic bit players. The three main women in 8½ (a mistress, a wife, an earthy guardian angel) find their echoes here in Charlotte Rampling, Marie-Christine Barrault and Jessica Harper. Allen also appropriates Fellini's strategy of deflecting criticism by placing it in his film-in the mouths of buffoons. Predators and editors, gargoyles and groupies, all want a piece of his present and a lock...
Although it boasts the region's highest per capita income ($1,650), the country ran up a formidable $650 million trade deficit last year, mainly because of spiraling oil bills. The result has been declining growth, rising food prices and increased labor unrest. Warns Economist Angel Rodríguez Echeverria: "Unless we resolve our economic problems, Costa Rica could become vulnerable to the troubles of other Central American countries...
When not studying or working out, Ramos is likely to jog through his neighborhood at daybreak. In the gray light at the corner of Brook Avenue and East 138th Street, where he sometimes used to hang out in the winter with Popeye, Angel and Shorty, he can see up to 15 buildings that have been torched or abandoned. Despite the wreckage, according to Ramos, Brook Avenue is still the struttin'est street in The Bronx. On fine days it over flows with hip dudes, good music and fine reefer...
...Cambridge women will walk to Boston's Fenway area, where they will join women from five other sites around the area, in an effort to show that "together we can take back the night," Angel Ryan, a local coordinator of the march, said yesterday...
...Jarrell wrote like an angel, it was often an avenging one. But the same fierce gaiety that could make him lethal also made him the most generous of praisers. He proselytized ardently for Whitman and Frost a generation ago, when both tended to be dismissed, or admired for the wrong reasons. He upbraided Auden for sometimes frittering away magnificent skills: "Auden's laundry list would be worth reading-I speak as one who's read it many times, all rhymed and metered." But Auden's best, he maintained in a review reprinted in this new collection...