Word: angelical
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...sound they created for themselves. Indeed, the song begins in the tower, in a musical style very similar to past releases, but as windmill-island emerges above the clouds the song shifts to a new jangly guitar-driven, genuinely pretty chorus. A new direction? Blur? Perhaps. Or perhaps their angel dust wasn’t so pure after...
...turns out, bears more than a passing resemblance to Marlene Dietrich. Hicks took on the look of the legendary German actress after Director Richard Brooks suggested that she dress like an old-time movie star instead of your typical casino bunny. "I always loved The Blue Angel," said the star, and happily donned top hat and silk hose. Now that she is a Mädchen in uniform, Hicks finds more contrast than similarity between her current character and Monroe. "Flo's been hurt, but she doesn't go under," says Hicks. "She's a fighter; Marilyn wasn...
...with 240,000 subscribers, nearly everybody knows Terry ("Cupcake") Biener. She is the Valley Stream, N.Y., housewife who writes Cupcake's Column, an electronic tattle sheet that reports on the real-life romances of couples who meet on the network. For example, two people whose "handles" on CompuServe were Angel and Malaprop were married last September in a California ceremony filled with "flowers, balloons and water pistols." At the Old Colorado City Electronic Cottage, a bulletin board in Colorado Springs, Colo., used by 8,500 buffs, Proprietor David Hughes does a sort of man-on-the-street reporting he calls...
...mortar and pestle, pounding out the elixir of life.) Likewise, the clam is peaceable to us; but when one sees the magnificent 17th century helmet in this show, with the two halves of a clam shell in black lacquered leather rising from the crest like the wings of the Angel of Death, its power as an image of armor is undeniable...
Obviously the Disney people hoped to accomplish a similar sort of generic revivification for younger children with One Magic Christmas, which is about a little girl's attempt to get her dour mom (Mary Steenburgen) into the holiday spirit. The child is given a guardian angel and Santa Claus as helpers, but the script lacks a clear narrative line, the supporting cast is woefully weak, and Director Borsos' touch is too heavy for the light fantastic. --By Richard Schickel