Word: angellic
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...three households are visited by supernatural visions. To the afflicted lover, a Wasp whose family name can be traced to the Middle Ages, ancestors appear; so does an angel. The Mormon wife is transported to distant spheres by a mystical street black who materializes and vanishes. Cohn is spooked by Ethel Rosenberg, the accused Soviet spy whose judicial execution he maneuvered for his patron, Red-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy...
...firing stopped, and a white flag emerged from the front door. "Outstanding!" thought the leader of the Hostage Rescue Team. "It's gonna work." Koresh's chief lieutenant, Steve Schneider, retrieved the telephone, and the agents felt a moment of hope. But the firing began again. Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth...
...assemblage and the found object. To see Picasso's joining two tin half-spheres -- kitchen colanders -- to form the cranium of Head of a Woman, 1929-30, or Gonzalez's recycling what appears to be a pair of scythe blades as the wings of a creature midway between angel and praying mantis, is to witness plays of the dreaming, free-associating, punning mind that seem fundamental to modernism. Iron, in the form of objects that could be almost randomly brought together, favored wit and invention. Gonzalez, though he could make small sculptures with the finesse of jewelry, loved the contrast...
James Lee Burke won an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America for Black Cherry Blues, a 1989 novel about Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux, a recovering alcoholic and avenging angel. There's a New Age-ish twist to most of Burke's work. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (Hyperion; 344 pages; $19.95) is haunted by not one but two ghosts: a black man Robicheaux saw murdered as a teenager whose corpse resurfaces, and a Civil War officer sometimes accompanied by battered but unbowed troops. Throw in the Mafia, visiting Hollywood moviemakers, a serial killer and such fillips...
...good enough for me." The questions she raises have a kind of unanswerable rhetorical strength. She sings on the closing track: "If there's a God on my side,/ Why don't she show me her face?" Ironic: religious doubts from a woman with the voice of an angel...