Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What did they all do? Traditional Christian teaching holds that God created angels partly to adore and praise him-like a duke, forming his own opera company to entertain an audience of one-but also to serve as intermediaries between the worlds of spirits and of men, between Heaven and Earth. Angels intervened, visibly or unseen, at every moment of God's enterprises, beginning with the largest of all: keeping the universe in motion. Tasks were dealt out among the various grades of angels; so vast a society obviously needed a pecking order. The structure of this heavenly bureaucracy...
...embody this concept? The first angels in Christian art look like ordinary men, whether painted on catacomb walls or preserved in mosaic on the 5th century walls of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. What the artist stresses is the power of assuming human shape and walking among men, who "entertain them unawares...
...Goodstone. 239 pages. Chelsea House. $15. Mayhem, rape, demonology and interplanetary carnage in a representative sampling from Mammoth Adventure, War Aces, Thrilling Wonder, Western Trails, Spicy Detective, etc., including facsimile ads for "nose shapers," neckties that glow in the dark and "real live pet turtles." The horrid yarns still entertain and-because they have been so outdone by TV and today's other de-scribers of mindless violence-they are even soothing in a creaky, campy...
...never stop thinking about him and what he's going through. It's just impossible to get it out of your mind. I've been married 14 years . . ." She cannot blend into the social mix of other couples easily, and she hates to rely on others to entertain her?"You feel like a fifth wheel." The infrequent parties must inevitably end badly. "I come home, and that's when I feel worst...
...show Poupées de Paris. Today several Krofft troupes tour the country. Claims Sid Krofft: "We were an adults-only show, and when the whole world went tits, we decided to go back to children. We're not in politics and we're not educators. We're here to entertain...