Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Towering over Tony Kushner's 7 1/2-hour epic about gay liberation, AIDS and the Reagan era was a wall like the facade of some government colossus, already cracked and waiting to split open. It did -- to reveal an avenging angel that was just one of the acts of theatrical and metaphysical daring in this brilliant if roughhewn jumble of politics, fantasy and farce. The full Angels debuted memorably at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, starring Ron Leibman as Republican dealmaker Roy Cohn...
...SORT OF VOICE YOU MIGHT hear wafting pure and plaintive from the holding tank in a county jail. With the face of an orphaned angel, STACY DEAN CAMPBELL offers no fuss, no frills, just righteous white-boy blues ("Would you run away from me/ If I came crawlin' back to you"). His debut album, Lonesome Wins Again, is 10 sticks of slow-fused Nashville dynamite from his own pen and those of top country songsmiths Don Schlitz and Jamie O'Hara. The best tunes, including Baby Don't You Know and I Won't, take you two-stepping back...
Ghost of Christmas Past, a delightful angel (Maureen Silliman), transports Scrooge back to his childhood. Back then, we learn, the penile protagonist partook of Christmas in the spirit of most Christian children--perhaps Marley's ghosts can revive some of Scrooge's youthful cheer...
...then there's the tree thing. Every year a few people bitch and moan about the presence of this religious artifact in house dining halls and JCRs. I say, bullfeathers. These erstwhile evergreens are about as secular as it gets, unless they're bedecked with a cross or an angel or Donny and Marie Osmond paraphernalia...
FIRST SUPERMAN DIES AND NOW THIS. CURTIS Sliwa, founder and leader of the crime-fighting, beret-wearing volunteer group known as the Guardian Angels, says six of the group's early exploits were just publicity stunts. The hoaxes, which Sliwa says ended in 1980, ranged from a kidnapping Sliwa blamed on cops to a story about a wallet returned to an elderly mugging victim. The Angels have long been controversial, and some press reports allege Sliwa has yet to own up to all such misdeeds. Still, Sliwa says his honor is intact: "My reputation in New York was almost mythically...