Word: angelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eventually, as patrol groups expanded to cities nationwide, the Guardian Angels came under fire from civil libertarians who called them "vigilantes," and from police departments who considered them marginally effective nuisances. Still, Sliwa's organization never lost most of its popularity. But reviewing the Angels' record and analyzing a new Guardian Angel anti-crime manual co-authored by Sliwa brings out unflattering sides of the group that police, libertarians and the general public have all overlooked...
With the help of a Madison Avenue lawyer named Murray Schwartz. Sliwa has written a book called Streetsmart: The Guardian Angel Guide to Safe Living The paperback has an eye-catching glossy cover photo of Sliwa and some Angels standing on a street in tough-guy poses usually found on the covers of heavy-metal rock albums or comic books. It underscores the way Sliwa has marketed himself and his ideas in a tasteless, often crass manner...
...incident seems too sensitive to be turned into one of Sliwa's public-relations bids. He married a fellow Angel on Christmas Eve 1981, and the two spent their "honeymoon" patrolling the New York subways. The media were invited, and one T. V. report showed Sliwa carrying his new bride through a subway turnstile instead of over a threshold...
...cashmere sweaters, G strings, food processors, wine vinegar, wine racks and wine-flavored toothpaste, pineapple peelers, electronic potato parers, pear trees, frozen pheasants, silver stirrups, golden everything, robot chess partners, posters, potholders, the world's plumpest peanuts, jelly beans, ice cream machines, pushbutton card shufflers, 30 types of angel fish, fat-farm vacations, exquisite tools, 2,250-ft. balls of twine, doormats, decanters and dark glasses for dogs...
...jailed, he wandered the city raving against devils and homosexuals. Similar episodes followed wherever he traveled: in Boston, in London, in Salzburg, in Buenos Aires. At some point he would fall in love: with a nurse, an airline stewardess, a Latvian dancer. It hardly mattered. She would become the angel of his "rebirth...