Word: angellic
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...shadow hovering over all the people in Rent, but the musical doesn't dwell on illness or turn preachy; it is too busy celebrating life and chronicling its characters' efforts to squeeze out every last drop of it. Tom Collins (Jesse L. Martin), a gay teacher, hooks up with Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia), a high-spirited transvestite. Joanne (Fredi Walker), a lesbian attorney, gets together with Maureen (Idina Menzel), a performance artist who has just broken up with Mark (Anthony Rapp), a video filmmaker who acts as the musical's narrator and guide...
Genesis 32:25 tells of how Jacob wrestles with an angel. When he is victorious, he demands from the bested messenger his prize: a name. The angel concedes defeat, replying, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven...and prevailed...
...Buchanan is no angel, yet he remains a force with which every decent conservative must wrestle. The prize we must wrest from him is the same as the one Jacob received from his heavenly opponent. From our struggle with Buchanan, we must win a name; we must find an identity. If we are not for him, what are we for? If his message is corrupt and filthy, what have we to say? If we rebuke his conservatism, what is the nature...
...county had paid $18 million in settlements to children who were abused while in its custody. In the case of Jesus, a nine-year-old who weighed only 28 lbs. and could hardly speak after his angel dust-addicted parents committed suicide, county workers failed to visit him in his foster home for four months. During that time, he was beaten, sodomized, burned on his genitals and nearly drowned by his foster parents. He became a spastic paraplegic. By 1990 the state was threatening to take over Los Angeles County's child-welfare-services system...
...felt like every child, everyone in the building or in the whole block, should be removed." Marsha Hurda, a veteran social worker and Davis' colleague, used to handle only cases that were already in the court system. "Back then," she says, "I used to feel like an avenging angel. I felt good that I was able to keep a kid out of a bad home. But now I'm seeing those kids, and they've gone through five foster homes. The original home was bad, but what do you do? Do you try to reunify? You wonder...