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...Here, just across from the gold-domed statehouse, Shaw led the North's first black regiment down Beacon Street and off to war. "The very flower of grace and chivalry," John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of Shaw's departure, "he seemed to me beautiful and awful, as an angel of God come down to lead the host of freedom to victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Boston: Aid and Comfort for the Shaw | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

Charlotte Laurier plays Manon--a brilliant, brooding, exquisite, precocious little girl with saucer eyes, dark peekaboo bangs and an overfull heart--so letter perfectly that the actress cannot be separated from the role. Laurier is Manon: a terrible angel of a devil, hungry for something she can neither identify nor locate in her drab, shabby life. Absorbed in the poetic fierceness of Wuthering Heights. Manon alternates between sudden overwhelming emotional outbursts and sulking hostility. She is entirely too much for her mother Michelle (Marie Tifo), a big-hearted, big-boned woman of loose morality and easy virtue, to handle...

Author: By Debra K. Holmes, | Title: Loose Morality | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Katherine ("Ketti") Frings, 61, versatile novelist, screenwriter and playwright whose film credits include Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) and The Shrike (1955), and who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for her stage adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel; of cancer; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 23, 1981 | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...this scene, Randolphe again rises to the expression of earlier lines, bringing the original forcefulness back into the role. Staggering from one side of the stage to the other, Randolphe conveys the helplessness and terror of one who ignores repeated warnings from angels who had urged him to repent and assured him that God would forgive him. The female voice of the good angel floats down from a microphone hidden high in the rafters, while the male voice of the evil spirit, always urging Faustus along the path of godlessness, rises from beneath the set. Lucifer has won. Faustus will...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Unworldly Knowledge | 2/12/1981 | See Source »

...hand just a little closer . . . that's right, give me tits again ... let me fix the hair. . ." Between shots Apples curls up like a cat and sings softly to herself. The next morning she is booked on a flight to Europe, and that night she is sleeping like an angel in Le Grand Hotel in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modeling the '80s Look: The Faces and Fees are Fabulous | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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