Word: angelicizing
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In 1954, Broadway audiences were chilled by The Bad Seed. The title character of that melodrama was a homicidal moppet whose appearance was so angelic that no one but her mother suspected the hidden crimes. British Novelist B.M. Gill has given the premise a sardonic twist: in Nursery Crimes, wicked...
But according to Brian Cann, another of the martyrs, Curtis hasn't been quite as angelic as he claims.
Woolf, who accompanied the Dereks throughout their stay here, called the actress "probably the most angelic woman I've ever met."
In the 1978 movie Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty played an angelic corporate kingpin who proposes that his firm, Exo-Grey, shut down a profitable refinery because it might pollute the local environment. This was not just common sense, the Beatty character told his astonished board of directors, but good...
Two better shows in the central pavilion also take up the theme of technology, science and art. "The Representation of Space" has some painstaking reconstructions of spatial illusion in Renaissance and baroque art; its best moment (which will be the envy of all red-blooded interior decorators) is a full...