Word: archangelic
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Angel-voiced Soprano Milanov, as Chénier's aristocratic amour, and archangel-voiced Baritone Warren, as a servant turned revolutionary, helped make the Met's Chenier a solid success, but the hit of the evening was Tenor Mario Del Monaco, in the powerful title role. When his time came, he stood back, heaved an enormous breath, spread his arms and let fly with a stunning high B flat that he held until it began to sound as if a phonograph needle was stuck in the groove...
...Russians pardoned a British sailor named George Robinson, who was jailed last September for drunkenly assaulting a Soviet official in the port of Archangel; they let him go in Berlin...
...Archangel Michael bounded forward, gorgeous in a white-and-pink silk costume, and challenged Lucifer in the name of God and the seven virtues...
...capital sins") wore a mask of interlaced serpents; Sloth was a yawning frog; Lust was masked by lizards. Last of all came La Diabla, the she-devil. With her seductive smile and flouncing skirts, provocatively hoisted as she danced, the tempting she-devil managed to give the archangel a bad half-hour...
Pablo Picasso has been the most controversial artist of the 20th Century. He has been praised to heaven (Mexican Painter Diego Rivera: "I have never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso") and damned to hell (British Critic Michael Ayrton: "He is the archangel Lucifer"). He has also been the century's most protean artist, moving vigorously from one new style and outlook to another. Latterly, though still attracting attention, he has produced less & less consternation, largely because the world has got more used...