Word: archangelic
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...modes: the relatively straightforward, subtly continuous modeling of the human face and figure and a wild abstract convolution and hollowing of draperies, a sense of the pure plane jutting and receding in space that surrounds his bodies with an ecstatic corona of motion. His linden- wood carving of The Archangel Raphael and the Young Tobias, 1516, is a tour de ! force of this kind. Though every crinkle of the figures' drapery looks natural, the planes of wood are whittled down to a fierce thinness, a buckling, bladelike sweep that from some angles seems to overwhelm the figure it surrounds...
...cool, crisp February morning Sylvester Stallone's travelling carnival of destruction has come to Harvard. If you don't like it, blow it up. A major university, a center of learning, culture and, most important, of reason, seems a natural target for America's avenging archangel...
...there are resonances of the mourning and then renewal that the company has had to endure since Balanchine's death. The ballet ends with a vision of heaven, indicated in the score by a beautiful chorale. As always, Robbins skillfully uses some company youngsters: Peter Boal, looking like an archangel, Damian Woetzel, a particularly blithe spirit who joined the troupe last month, and Teresa Reyes, a recent incarnation of Balanchine's leggy ideal. In Memory of . . . ends with a homage to him. Farrell is carried offstage by Duell and Luders in the serene, lyrical "swimming" motion from Chaconne -- also...
...fuss is the film's plot, a contemporary version of the virgin birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have been; the Archangel Gabriel is a drunken roughneck; and Jesus turns out to be a turbulent toddler who exclaims, "I am the one who is," leading Joseph, behind the wheel of the family car, to reply, "Shut up and get in." For good measure, Mary, played by Myriem Roussel, has several nude scenes. Godard...
...moderates and leftists for control of the badly divided party. Deputy Leader Denis Healey, 65, by far the best known of the centrists and one of Britain's liveliest political figures, was deemed out of the race because of his age. Also benched was Tony Benn, 58, longtime archangel of Labor's radical left, who lost his seat in Parliament in the election. Last week's front runner was Neil Kinnock, 41, a staunch leftist whose Welsh charm has won him friends throughout the party and substantial support from the trade unions. On the moderate side...