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...either the image or the idea of angels. They rebelled against the "decadent" decoration of Renaissance churches, with their lavishly winged, lushly adorned angels + acting as God's attendants but reigning supreme over earthly citizens. In building a new, democratic model of church life, the Protestant reformers not only swept away the papal bureaucracy of Bishops and Cardinals, but the angelic hierarchy as well. Man could commune directly with his Maker without a winged messenger intervening. And God for his part could move the planets through the skies without calling upon angels to push them...
...shake the world. Last week it took just one. Although the latest revolution unfolded peacefully at the ballot box, the aftershocks were no less unsettling than those triggered by the Bolshevik coup. Ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a golden-tongued demagogue who has been compared with Adolf Hitler, looked to have swept enough votes to establish a powerful bloc for his neofascist party in the State Duma, the lower house of the new Russian parliament...
...turn paranoid suspicions into scary reality (Klute, All the President's Men), gives his movie the dark glow we have come to expect from this genre. But we don't go to movies like this in search of stylish apercus. We go to see innocents like ourselves getting swept up by irresistible tides of terror. And to have the pants scared off us. That doesn't happen in The Pelican Brief. An airplane read has been turned into nothing more compelling than an airplane...
Alliances backed by former communists swept balloting in municipal elections in several of Italys largest cities, including Genoa, Naples, Rome, Trieste and Venice. Neo-Fascist candidate Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of the dictator, lost her bid to become mayor of Naples...
When the elite force that had been hunting Colombia's most notorious drug trafficker for more than 16 months stormed a two-story house last Thursday afternoon in Medellin and shot Pablo Escobar Gaviria dead, the wave of jubilation that swept much of the country began with the raiders themselves. "We won!" they shouted, as they raised their guns over the drug lord's body. Amid all the commotion, few remarked that at the moment he was killed, the man who had spent a year and a half running from the world's largest manhunt wasn't wearing any shoes...