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SALEM, N.H.--Angel Taveras '92 knows about sacrifice. To go door-to-door for Sen. Tom Harkin (D--Iowa) in the frigid streets of this Granite State community last weekend, the Leverett House resident had to sacrifice his Saturday, his warmth and possibly his limbs...
...like it when he says the best social policy is a job," said Angel Taveras '92, who made the one-hour trip with students from Tufts University, Wellesley College and Emerson College...
Actually Benny is a lot stranger than his father imagines. The boy has decided he is an ethereal spirit -- "Angel of Plagues, Angel of Ice, Angel of Lightning" -- and has had wings tattooed on his back. Benny also sees himself as the appointed savior of Catchprice Motors. Never mind that his relatives think him fit for nothing but pumping gas. "This is a family business," Benny tells a prospective salesman. "It's a snake-pit. They all hate each other. None of them can sell a car. If you work here, you'd have to work...
Each era has its high points, often about unsuspected topics. "The Black Angel's Death Song" revolves on the paradoxes of the will encountering language, the language of choice, and violence. "Andy's Chest," inspired by the Richard Avedon photo of Warhol's bullet-scarred body, concludes with the thickest description of the Warholian psyche...
Jaclyn Smith goes through a nearly identical cycle of abuse in CBS's The Rape of Dr. Willis. The former Charlie's Angel plays a doctor who performs emergency surgery to try to save the man who raped her. Fat lot of good it does. The creep dies anyway, and the doctor is forced to defend herself against charges that she purposely let him die. Snarls a prosecutor: "What happened to your thirst for revenge?" So much for professional ethics...