Word: angeles
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...idea of chasing down demons of hell as an angel firing bolts of holy and spiritual righteousness does not appeal to me. This is probably because I have out-grown my childhood love of pixelated demon hunting. However, I am not their target audience; they are going for, in the words of one developer, the “assistant pastor who wants to go home and play a cool game.” In this quest for holy electronic success I wish them luck, as they seek to answer the eternal question: What Would Jesus Play...
...sound they created for themselves. Indeed, the song begins in the tower, in a musical style very similar to past releases, but as windmill-island emerges above the clouds the song shifts to a new jangly guitar-driven, genuinely pretty chorus. A new direction? Blur? Perhaps. Or perhaps their angel dust wasn’t so pure after...
...with 240,000 subscribers, nearly everybody knows Terry ("Cupcake") Biener. She is the Valley Stream, N.Y., housewife who writes Cupcake's Column, an electronic tattle sheet that reports on the real-life romances of couples who meet on the network. For example, two people whose "handles" on CompuServe were Angel and Malaprop were married last September in a California ceremony filled with "flowers, balloons and water pistols." At the Old Colorado City Electronic Cottage, a bulletin board in Colorado Springs, Colo., used by 8,500 buffs, Proprietor David Hughes does a sort of man-on-the-street reporting he calls...
...mortar and pestle, pounding out the elixir of life.) Likewise, the clam is peaceable to us; but when one sees the magnificent 17th century helmet in this show, with the two halves of a clam shell in black lacquered leather rising from the crest like the wings of the Angel of Death, its power as an image of armor is undeniable...
Obviously the Disney people hoped to accomplish a similar sort of generic revivification for younger children with One Magic Christmas, which is about a little girl's attempt to get her dour mom (Mary Steenburgen) into the holiday spirit. The child is given a guardian angel and Santa Claus as helpers, but the script lacks a clear narrative line, the supporting cast is woefully weak, and Director Borsos' touch is too heavy for the light fantastic. --By Richard Schickel