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...great American drug habit. Last month voters in Arizona and California passed ballot propositions that legalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, a kind of backdoor quasi-legitimation alarming to the pot hawks, who fear that high-minded tolerance (pot as pain reliever, glaucoma salve, general angel of mercy) may become infectious and spread to the other states...
...Barbie Fashion Designer $45; Mattel; ages 6 and up Girls--or young Calvin Kleins--design doll clothes with this CD-ROM, print them on special paper and make them without sewing. Why pay for whatever bizarre Barbie outfit Mattel offers next when your angel can make...
...must commend you on your straightforward article about Richard Jewell, who was accused and then cleared of planting a bomb at the Olympics in Atlanta last summer [SOCIETY, Nov. 11]. You didn't paint Jewell as an angel, nor did you show the FBI to be a bunch of total ruffians. Most important, your story showed us how easily any person in the U.S. can become enmeshed in a battle with the system. Every day people are mistreated by bureaucracies, their lives and names dragged through the mud without their having any recourse even after they are cleared. Our system...
...phrase Christmas movies summons candy-cane memories of Jimmy Stewart chatting with an angel, Natalie Wood on Santa's knee, Macaulay Culkin giving Joe Pesci a splitting headache. It also suggests another fantasy: the family setting off for the local movieplex and seeing a film together instead of having to go to two different features, one for Mom and Dad, the other for the kids. Surely, somewhere under the holiday sky, there must be a film the whole family can stand. Mustn't there? Surely...
...enact, with less melodrama, the arc of Almasy and Katharine's desperate affair. Almasy wants his love to flee in a plane; Kip sends Hana soaring on pulleys into the clerestory of the monastery chapel. Up there with the heavenly murals: Kip knows that's where this pensive angel belongs...