Word: angels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal separation "to get the jump on her." Nonsense, said a spokesman for 19-year-old Miss Vicki, "All the fellow was doing was showing her the ropes." However that may be, "The wedding ring will always stay on my finger," trilled Tiny Tim. "She is still my sweet angel and I love her more than ever...
...camera has practically created a genre as the recording angel of disintegrating minds-the corroborating witness to the psychopathology of everyday life. Carnal Knowledge, Husbands, Straw Dogs all in different ways perform the basic ritual of the '70s film. Once an Ingmar Bergman specialty, the perfectly average man going a bit mad is now a stock character, taken for granted. Similarly, one no longer bothers to speak of the theater of the absurd as if it were an exotic fringe entity. The achievement of the Madness Revolution has been to make Beckett, Ionesco and Genet seem oldfashioned...
...ironies. In The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, ostensibly written for children, the inhabitants of a fishing vil lage discover a magnificent corpse on the beach, and in marveling at its splendor come to recognize the meanness of their own lives. In another story, a flea-bitten old angel makes a mysterious appearance...
...Farewell Angel. For one thing, says Bernard Greisman, a Manhattan tax lawyer who edits the annual J.K. Lasser guide, Your Income Tax, "the play has been taken out of holding on to a hot stock." Under the old rules, the tax differential between long-and short-term gains encouraged investors to keep their stocks for at least six months. Greisman believes that the new rules may result in a more volatile stock market, with many more "in and out" deals...
Look Homeward, Angel, (CBS Playhouse 90). Adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's novel. 9:30, Feb. 25. Chan...