Word: angelized
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...great-uncle, a celebrated musician who, family lore says, decided to lie down and die after his wife broke his instrument, a tar, over her knee. Satrapi chronicles the eight remaining days of his life as he converses with his wife, his children, his friends and eventually the angel of death. Satrapi's simple black-and-white drawing style, combined with the fantastical elements of her narrative, turns Chicken with Plums into a great bedtime story for melancholy adults...
...Desperanians carry their complicated histories theatrically large-and none more so than the Phantoms of westside Pricklebush. There's matriarch Angel Day, who drags a statue of the Virgin Mary from the town dump, igniting a clan war in the process; her fish embalmer husband Norm, who dreams of the Gulf's mythical grouper hole; their rebel son Will, who violently opposes the local mine; and his mentor, Mozzie Fishman, who leads convoys of similarly disenchanted souls (and later Angel Day) to Dreaming sites across the state. Around them swirl stories large and small, glorious and grotesque, of epic quests...
...Gill's profile on the eerie web site VampireFreaks.com displayed 50 photos of himself brandishing a machine gun and signing off as the "Angel of Death." On that site, Gill claims that his favorite video game was the home-made Super Columbine Massacre, the Canadian Press reported. The last of his six journal entries was posted at 10:41 a.m. Wednesday, precisely two hours before the first 911 call reporting an armed man at Dawson was made, according to CP reports...
...even changed his cell-phone number since notching the past two French Open titles. "What changed?" he asks. "Just one more trophy." Nadal's tough-love uncle Toni Nadal has coached Rafa since he was a child and lectured him on overspending and keeping his cool. (Another uncle, Miguel Angel Nadal, is a former Spanish soccer star nicknamed "the Beast of Barcelona.") Nadal has never tossed a racquet in his life...
...your brain, but your mind. Lives, families, whole communities have been destroyed by people using them. Narcotics are what you're thinking of when someone says the word "drugs." So real their promise of happiness - but it's a lie. Misery and death are the true gifts of this 'angel of light' in our world of pills...