Word: angelically
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...CASTING DEPARTMENT was run by "a lawyer who, like the Colonel, had been in drama at college." Casting was geared to turn a prostitute into an angel, to repolish a yaking common scold, or curve hard lips into "the kindly weak smiles of a deserving claimant." The main problem, the Colonel explained, was keeping jurors from discovering "true character" in the courtroom corridors "when the actor gets off the witness stand...
...precisely time for a rescue, and onto the scene fluttered a re vamped "Silver Angel"-the stubby-winged HU-16 sea-rescue amphibian of Air Force Captain David P. Westen-barger, who had been on patrol 150 miles away when he first heard the radioed cry of "Mayday." Dropping through the cloud layer to 100 ft., West-enbarger saw an oncoming 30-ft. junk spitting machine-gun bullets just short of Huggins. "Dunk that junk," he ordered four fighters circling overhead. As they complied, Westenbarger splashed down near Huggins, taxied between him and the pistol-packing swimmers, pulled the downed...
...course, is by far the easier of the critic's two tasks. But when Gottfried finds something to praise, he can be almost lyrical in his delight. About last season's Fiddler on the Roof, he wrote: "To see Zero Mostel dance is to see an angel in underwear. There is nobody else in the world who can shake a belly slowly...
...PURCELL ANTHOLOGY (Angel). Some youthful discretions by England's greatest composer, performed in singing style by Violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Alberto Lysy and members of the Bath Festival Orchestra. Mood and key flash from dark to bright in the short, rich trio sonatas and free-form fantasias for string quartets. Although they show a polite acquaintance with Italian baroque, the selections mind their Purcellian manners nevertheless...
FRANCIS POULENC: SEXTET FOR PIANO AND WINDS (Angel). Prokofiev-like flashes of wit and tipsy abandon brighten the sextet, while the Sonata for Flute and Piano sets afloat a dreamy cantilena, then juggles flashy melodic fragments into thin air, Michel Debost lightly plays the lyrical flute; Jacques Fevrier is the pianist with him and with the Paris Wind Quintet...