Word: angeles
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...movie, tentatively titled The Last Broadcast. On the stage of the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn., technicians and musicians jostle with actors decked out for such roles as a radio host, a country-music singer, a rope-twirling cowboy, a 1940s-era private eye and the Angel of Death. "O.K.," Altman booms, "let's see what we can do with this ... this mess. I'm just going to sit here and watch." Before the cameras roll, he adds, not entirely jokingly, "Everybody fend for themselves...
...Days earlier, the Angel family was packing up 20 years of their lives and would send a trailer filled with their possessions to their new rented apartment, The family plans to stay in the empty house until the army comes to evacuate them. "It's a rotten government for doing such a thing," he says...
...Angel, a driver for the regional Gush Katif bus company, says, "We feel that we are being thrown to the dogs. Why should we leave? Why should we be forced to give up this paradise? I am concerned for the next generation of Israelis, because we are giving up land all the time. It's continuous...
...Angel, who has seven children, notes a marked deterioration in relations with the police and army since June, when they began closing Gush Katif with roadblocks to prevent potential infiltration by protesters. "It's very frustrating," he says, though he won't comment on the possibility of violence during the withdrawal...
Consider Paradise, Kans., which is just about lost. "We buried 12 here last year," says Garnett Angel, whose husband of 60 years, John, was one of the latest. That's a major hit in a tiny town, where the eroding school building hasn't been used in more than 10 years and a forest of mature trees sprouts within four walls of what used to be a bank on the main strip. Paradise was never big. But it bustled. Now its storefronts are shuttered, and the only action other than the, yes, tumbleweeds that roll through town...