Word: angelical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blue Angel, Friday and Saturday...
...Blue Angel. Perfect to contrast to the above. One of the most sensuous movies ever made. You can't hurry this picture--you have to let its pace wash over you slowly, and feel the real, physical undercurrent beneath the stern languor. Set in decadent cabaret Weimar; made in 1930 by Joseph von Sternburg. With Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings...
...which is worse: to be so out of it, like both teams in any contest among the hapless ones--the Padres (41 games out, no less), Giants, Astros, Angels, or Braves--or to be a late-season casualty, a "choke", such as the Redlegs, Phillies, or Bosox. One must wonder if it isn't more fun for Angel fans to go to the park with the idea that their team might chop off the grasping fingers of a club trying to maintain a handhold on first place, than to see a squirming team such as Boston, whose only hustle...
...tours of the temple, which one Washington newsman has called "a bleached Emerald City of Oz," should certainly accomplish that. Although the exterior of the temple is striking-288 ft. tall from the ground to the tip of the Angel Moroni's trumpet and encased in 173,000 sq. ft. of gleaming white Alabama marble-the interior does not inspire awe. Divided into dozens of rooms on nine levels, the temple has nothing comparable to the great nave and towering sanctuary of a traditional Christian cathedral. Indeed, the Mormon temple is not built for regular worship (that purpose...
Under the trying circumstances, nothing Sandy does seems inappropriate. The secret of her appeal and depth is that she is a ministering angel who also ministers to herself. She has an artist's sense of what is real and what is merely tactful. When her husband's doctor cops out and leaves her to tell Jay that his illness is incurable, Sandy's instincts are superb: "I wanted to do it while he was still able to walk. It seemed immoral somehow to tell a dying man the miserable and imminent truth when he was helpless, lying...