Word: seraphic
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...speeding up the physical and mental decay that aging forces on mere mortals. Like his hero Rimbaud, he raced death to the finish line. When he died in 1971, at 27, he was ravaged, depleted, spent. But for a few years Morrison was Satan's seraph -- the golden stud of '60s rock...
...prettier than she is. More over, she affects a wispy giggle that mimics Monroe and every little girl lost from Susan Alexander Kane to Judy Garland. Yet Wiest has managed to bleach the intelligence out of her face, leaving only a cunning child with the look of a battered seraph. This is no flesh-and-blood performance; it is pure, chilling marrow. Emotional striptease is what such acting is all about. But perhaps not play writing...
There can be no higher calling even for an aerialist. To celebrate the resumption (after 41 years) of construction on the world's largest Gothic cathedral, St. John the Divine, that soaring seraph of acrobats Philippe Petit, 33, tiptoed to the church across a 250-ft. wire slung 15 stories above Manhattan. The inspiration, notes Dean James Parks Morton, came from an 18th century painting by Guardi depicting circus performers outside San Marco in Venice. Having an aerialist perform, says Morton, "is proof of faith, like nothing else." And he has that on the loftiest authority...
...such talents as the sybaritic Charlie perfume girl. But both are in her curriculum now that Hack, 31, has replaced Kate Jackson in the trio of Charlie's Angels alongside Veterans Cheryl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith. Artfully imitating her own earlier life, Hack will play a Seven Sisters seraph named Tiffany Welles. As such, she has to bite the Angel dust from time to time. In one early scene, for instance, Hack is overpowered by hired killers on a Mexican island; Ladd and Smith, of course, rescue her before the final commercials. Hack at least needed no lessons...
...Seraph: Evie, Baby, that's all we need to know... Call the next witness