celestially

NASA’s Lucy mission has just snagged a celestially good deal: two asteroids for the price of one flyby.

But Lipstein isn’t implying that a person must either be celestially lucky or satanically unprincipled or both in order to “make it.”

That makeup could be soft and androgynous — think David Bowie, with his celestially iridescent, pink-lidded appearances as Ziggy Stardust — or it could be tough: Lou Reed in black lipstick and kohl.

What matters today is that the camerlengo bails out just before the chopper explodes and, wearing a parachute, floats celestially to the basilica roof, where he kneels in prayer and is proclaimed a hero-savior.

And with his lovely prose, Boxer makes it relatively easy to navigate — if not celestially then literarily — around the difficult bits.