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Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch
…his career resuscitated by a starring role in Pulp Fiction, plays the titular archangel. Largely critically panned, Michael presents its antagonist as a drinking, smoking, swearing, overeating slob who (it is Travolta after all) dances. The film’s tagline declares that “He’s an angel, not a saint,” though of course the mythological being was both. Angel spawn Among the most audacious and idiosyncratic of twentieth-century comics, the seventy-fiv…
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