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Goetz, who has admitted to using angel dust (PCP), suggested, in court, that his victim's mother should have had an abortion, and has never expressed any regret for the incident...
...notes placed at the crash site says simply, "God's newest little angel." But angels, of course, have wings...
...sweat from our faces." The stage is a canvas of convulsive emotions and pristine images of four tortured refugees from the pestilence. Only a 12-year-old girl promises spiritual absolution; as an older woman says, "The breath of a child has passed through the lungs of an angel." Wallace is similarly blessed; she weaves a sorcerer's web of words...
...this intended moment of epiphany somehow falls flat, spoiled by Aunt T.'s inappropriate exclamation "You were as white as an angel!" In general, the women in "A Family Thing"--Aunt T., Mrs. Pilcher, Ray's and Earl's mother--are too saintly to be true, while the men are either churls (like Pilcher, Sr.) or burdened by a huge chip on the shoulder. Like balky horses, they must be forced into decent, sensible behavior by their womenfolk. "A Family Thing" would probably have been more convincing had nobility and selfishness been more evenly divided between the two sexes...
...faded Southern belle (with, naturally, a glass menagerie) who conceived Mel on a warehouse floor? Could Dad possibly be this truck-driving former Hell's Angel? Mel should be so lucky. For he turns out to be the get of the Schlictings (Alan Alda--as deliriously offcast as Moore--and Lily Tomlin), '60s dropouts who remain dangerously loyal to certain bad habits of their generation...