Word: mountaintop
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...other actors are bland, save for Cynthia Mace as the Mormon's deranged ; wife, but her role starts at a mountaintop of emotional frenzy and leaves her nowhere to go. As a gay man who deserts a dying lover, Joe Mantello projects a nihilism far more intriguing than Stephen Spinella's saintliness as the lover, although Spinella has the almost unplayable task of being visited by angels, ascending to heaven and returning to earth -- alive despite two apparent death scenes -- to bless the multitudes. Kushner has said the play's second half is two drafts away from being done...
...injunction against bearing false witness, branded in stone and brought down by Moses from the mountaintop, has always provoked ambivalent, conflicting emotions. On the one hand, nearly everyone condemns lying. On the other, nearly everyone does it every day. How many of the Ten Commandments can be broken so easily and with so little risk of detection over the telephone...
...Idaho white separatist Randy Weaver seemed willing to die for his piece of land too, as he holed up in his cabin near the hamlet of Naples, surrounded by FBI agents, federal marshals and local police officers. Authorities put his mountaintop redoubt under surveillance after he failed to appear for a February 1991 trial on charges of selling two sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent. Two weeks ago, Weaver's 13-year-old son Samuel and federal marshal William Degan were killed in a gun battle as lawmen approached the cabin. Prosecutors charged Weaver's comrade Kevin Harris...
...maybe what we really need is for the wise, bearded Salada man to come down from his mountaintop and run for the president...
Scarcely a single building has escaped damage in Stepanakert, the target of almost daily shelling all winter from a mountaintop stronghold held by the Azeris at Shusha, just four miles away. The city has been without running water, electricity or telephones for three months; other regions of Karabakh have been without these basic services for much longer. A near total absence of fuel -- a product of Azerbaijan's economic blockade of the enclave -- has left Karabakh's factories silent, its workers unemployed and without pay. Schools that have not been leveled are closed. The basement of the partially destroyed parliament...