Word: angelical
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...appeared last week in Jerusalem before a six-member panel to give evidence against Mengele. Though the tribunal had no judicial status, it recorded the proceedings on film, which could be used if Mengele, the most wanted Nazi still at large, is ever brought to trial. Known as the "Angel of Death," he is held responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 victims; his particular brand of infamy involved using Auschwitz inmates as human guinea pigs for his genetics research. In Mengele's presence, wrote a former assistant, "the SS themselves trembled...
...reflect what we does in fantasy. Many of us seem to feel that the most erotic condition of all could not be that of any man or woman, or of any child, or of a human being with two sexes, but that of a very young and effeminate male angel...Such a being may give and take a guiltless delight, wield limitless sexual power without sexual politics, feel all the pleasures of sex with none of the personal risks, can never grow up, never get wise, and never grow...
...Working from a lively adaptation of William Wharton's admired 1978 novel, he has achieved his personal best. He has turned an ordinarily bleak Philadelphia location into something akin to the Prince of Darkness's castle. He has made his principal character, who might have been just another teen angel, into a complex figure, comical and a little dangerous. He has, finally, transcended realism without traducing it. His movie does what Birdy himself can never quite manage. It defies gravity, convention and category, and gets away with...
RACHMANINOFF: SYMPHONY NO. 2 (Angel). Simon Rattle leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a complete version of the romantic score...
...R.S.V.P. Without so much as a by-your-leave, he has crash-landed in Wisconsin and now has three days to get to Arizona, where the mother ship will pick him up, like Junior after the sock hop, and take him home. His cross-country guide and reluctant guardian angel is Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen), a young widow, who at first registers no small surprise on discovering that Starman has assumed human form by cloning the body of her late and much loved husband...