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Jane Avril was described by English Critic Arthur Symons as having "the beauty of a fallen angel; she was exotic and excitable. ..." Lautrec's biographer Gerstle Mack described her differently: "She never allowed herself to lapse into vulgarity. ... Her friends were generally writers or artists, cultivated men in whose company she felt at ease." Lautrec immortalized Avril in numerous poses: as a Moulin Rouge spectator, in conventional garb leaving the cabaret, dancing a pas seul with her skirts flung high to reveal legs of startling thinness. Lautrec's most famous poster, Le Divan Japonais, featured Avril with...
...Angel Street. Suave torture in a gaslit Victorian parlor (TIME...
...have defeated the enemy. I am now about to smash him," he asserted flatly, relaxed and asked: "How do you like my hat?" Then wearing a tank corps beret which he had picked up, he climbed into a tank and rumbled off after his troops like a skinny avenging angel...
Japanese destroyers went right by Widhelm and Stokely-close enough for them to see Japanese grins. On the third day Stokely woke Widhelm from a sound sleep to point out a patrol plane circling for a landing, and said: "An angel's come from heaven, let's drink the rest of our water...
With a third Russian actress (Ludmilla Toretska) they descend uninvited upon a flabbergasted Long Island family. One of the Slavs is soulful, one is sexy, one is earthy; all are broke and ebullient. When not badgering their host to angel a play, they jabber about the beauty of silence, emote about love and art and nothing at all, quite happily drink poison. The poison turns out to be peach brandy...