Word: infernos
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...other Central Asian tribes into collective farms - and, as World War II erupts, into the Red Army. Kaja's charismatic father Ul'an decides to fight for his people's freedom by joining the invading German forces. He befriends a scholarly Wehrmacht officer, Günther Berger. Amid the inferno of Stalingrad and the coarser hell of a Soviet prison camp, Ul'an exacts a pledge from Berger that will alter Kaja's life completely. This consigns her, at age 9, to a new life amid the ruins of postwar Cologne and a tribe of incomprehensible strangers. "I felt like...
...Mike’s descent toward the inferno at the bottom of Manhattan is reminiscent of Dante’s journey to the depths of Hell in “The Divine Comedy.” Mike is separated from his girlfriend Jane during the chaotic hours after the attacks, evoking memories of the pair of lovers in Dante’s epic – Francesca and Paulo – who are tossed around by the “stormy blast of Hell.” McDonell’s image of a turban-wearing taxi driver...
Newman, after all, did The Towering Inferno...
...could dispute that the result is formidably learned. Eco’s knowledge is vast, and, under only the vaguest pretenses of narrative, “The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana” lets him broach subjects ranging from Dante’s Inferno to Dick Tracy comics...
Within five minutes of the assault a score of captives escaped the inferno, jumping from emergency exits or dropping from the wings. But 57 passengers died, including all nine of the children the hijackers had refused to release. Amid the pandemonium, Captain Galal suddenly found a chance to take personal revenge against the leader of the hijackers, a man who identified himself as "Nabil." After the commando assault began, said Galal, Nabil hurled a grenade toward the rear of the plane. Realizing he had taken his eyes off Galal, Nabil turned and fired at him. The pilot ducked...