Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world of Ivan Boeskys and Michael-Milkiens, Cecola, an analyst at Lazard Freres, wasn't much of a criminal, but he was no angel either. He used inside information to trade stocks in his girlfriend's name, and supplied another investment banker with tips gleaned from his work at Lazard, according to Stewart...
...three households are visited by supernatural visions. To the afflicted lover, a Wasp whose family name can be traced to the Middle Ages, ancestors appear; so does an angel. The Mormon wife is transported to distant spheres by a mystical street black who materializes and vanishes. Cohn is spooked by Ethel Rosenberg, the accused Soviet spy whose judicial execution he maneuvered for his patron, Red-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy...
...firing stopped, and a white flag emerged from the front door. "Outstanding!" thought the leader of the Hostage Rescue Team. "It's gonna work." Koresh's chief lieutenant, Steve Schneider, retrieved the telephone, and the agents felt a moment of hope. But the firing began again. Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth...
...assemblage and the found object. To see Picasso's joining two tin half-spheres -- kitchen colanders -- to form the cranium of Head of a Woman, 1929-30, or Gonzalez's recycling what appears to be a pair of scythe blades as the wings of a creature midway between angel and praying mantis, is to witness plays of the dreaming, free-associating, punning mind that seem fundamental to modernism. Iron, in the form of objects that could be almost randomly brought together, favored wit and invention. Gonzalez, though he could make small sculptures with the finesse of jewelry, loved the contrast...
...good enough for me." The questions she raises have a kind of unanswerable rhetorical strength. She sings on the closing track: "If there's a God on my side,/ Why don't she show me her face?" Ironic: religious doubts from a woman with the voice of an angel...