Word: angelica
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...woman's head, attributed to Joshua Reynolds, valued by Cleghorn at $1,500. Former Gallery Director Alvan Eastman thinks that the actual painter was one Angelica Kauffmann...
...sentimentalist used to achieve a sermon fortunately quite obsolete now, but still heard. It was a Confectioner's Sermon, like a wedding cake, a great, airy structure with candy chateaux, gardens of angelica, true lovers' knots of sugar, and hearts of purest whipped cream...
...Mark Fallon, the therapeutic gambler who gives a rapid fire Freudian analysis between kisses to Angelica Durean (Piper Laurie), Tyrone Power is insufferable enough to have even his love exclaim, "you egotistical ass." Having Piper Laurie around is never unpleasant, but if you come to see her act you had better stay at home. Probably the most creditable actress is Julia Adams, whose unrequited love of Fallon has moments of convincing tenderness...
...Opera Theater (Sat. 5 p.m., NBC). Puccini's Sister Angelica...
...precious hot-house blooms of Ronald Fir-bank (TIME, Nov. 21, 1949), an oldfashioned, discursive style, an artful way of saying exactly what a writer is up to while explaining at the same time how he got that way. Sometimes, as in writing about fifth-rate Poet Angelica Balabanoff, Wilson's ivory-tower reflections lead him straight into nonsense: "We have lost medieval Latin and 18th Century French, and have not yet arrived at Basic English; and in the meantime we have to do the best we can talking all the languages at once, like Marx and Engels...