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During the ordeal, nine people were trap- ped inside the monument for a time, huge government buildings were evacuated and officials worried about the safety of the White House, only six blocks away
...unbeatable plotline helps out considerably in Act Two, when the production begins to pick up momentum and emotional intensity. From the start of Jesus's ordeal, both the staging and the actors confidence begin to reach new heights, propelled along by a chorus whose energy gradually stops seeming misplaced. The ambitions of director Christopher Charron and lighting designer Alyssa Haywoode appear to have grown apace; there are some remarkable effects, including one that makes Isaacs on the cross look like a yellowed medieval painting. At this point, matters of musical acumen or dramatic balance lose their urgency, and the question...
...came naturally. Aksyonov had been born an alien in the Soviet world. He was the child of Stalin's victims: his father Pavel, the former Communist mayor of Kazan, served 18 years in the Gulag, and his mother Eugenia Ginzburg wrote two books about her own 18-year ordeal...
Both young women were talented, attractive and popular, the embodiment of family hopes. Bonnic's parents were spared the Websters' long agony of uncertainly, but they suffered the doubts and delays of a comparable ordeal--fighting with a court system that repeatedly seemed about to let their daughter's murderer, Richard J. Herrin, slip through its fingers...
...March 22, after all our efforts to negotiate with Iranian officials had proved fruitless, Mondale, Vance and I had a full briefing from our military leaders about the latest plans for a rescue mission, which were much more feasible than those presented at the outset of the ordeal. But they still needed more work, and I was not yet convinced that we should proceed...