Word: angelically
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...inverted the structure of the Miracle Play, placing the emphasis on the pagans and the thieves, giving the Christians at most a tenth of the lines. And before and after the beheading, torture, crucifixion, or any other horrific maltreatment of the Christian Crusaders, Bodel has a sweetly smiling Angel descend to the stage to tell them about the better life to which they are, forthwith, going...
...novel that can no more be spoiled by the reader's knowing the plot than can King Lear or Goldilocks, it may be stated that Querry is killed by Marie's husband in vengeance for an imagined sexual wrong, and the journalistic saint becomes a fallen angel. As an ironic footnote, he is buried under a misattributed quote. Parkinson sends a wreath inscribed with a line supposedly from Robert Browning ("Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art"). It is really from Walter Savage Landor, but Querry, ambiguous martyr, might have accepted it, as well as Lander...
...Playboy were so successful that he has been held over for another three. With dates lined up at San Francisco's hungry i, Cincinnati's Surf Club, and Freddie's in Minneapolis, he has also caught the interest of New York's Blue Angel...
...shows. Other comedy attempts in what was to have been the great season of laughter include NBC's Peter Loves Mary, unfortunately fairly successful, while Bringing Up Buddy (CBS) is doing just poorly enough to give hope of its early disappearance. Another comedy casualty is Angel (CBS), whose engaging French star, Annie Farge, ought to be salvaged from the wreckage...
Brains &; Big Names. An exceptional few New York clubs also have sophistication. They have introduced the human brain to nightclub audiences. Julius Monk's Upstairs at the Downstairs, where all the waiters are job-hunting actors, always has witty, literate revues. To an ever greater degree, the Blue Angel is the Eastern institute for bright nightclub acts, helped Mort Sahl, Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May to stardom. In their turn, they helped the overcrowded Blue Angel, which is apparently trying to discover how many potential angels can sit on the head...