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...minutes after the somber procession began, however, the angry mountain responded with another explosion of hot vapor and clouds of sand. To those at the scene the outburst sounded like the beginning of the Apocalypse...
...inflection, particularly on the word "peace," when he suggested that King's behavior was hardly befitting the standards expected of a Nobel Prize winner. Equally conceivable is the overwhelming sense of dislocation and betrayal that must have hit King like the hot and hard wind of a desert sand storm. The camera and the microphone, which had been his two biggest weapons from the beginning, were now the nails with which he was being crucified for having practiced the love he preached...
...would emerge the invisible colors changing so patiently that one could as well walk from sun to shadow in the same ignorance of perfect vision to descend, however, from wings to the land beyond the blue plain begin, continuing to the great mountains in measureless distance, great dunes of sand, they are vulnerable, massive changing with the clouds, their gravity, constant in change, they are not gold, nor golden color borne of texture below the surface, the refraction of a beauty need never be know, precious elements of transcendent spectra blinding, forever blind, locked within other earths, hues humble...
Located at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula and commanding the passage to the Gulf of Aqaba, Sharm el Sheikh is sand-blown, sunbaked and heavy with symbolism and strategic significance. It played a major part in the events leading to the Six-Day War. At that time, Gamal Abdel Nasser threatened that Egyptian artillery at Sharm el Sheikh would sink any ship that ventured into the narrow Straits of Tiran en route to the Israeli port of Eilat, 130 miles to the north, which handles all of Israel's oil imports. Soon afterward, Israeli paratroopers and amphibious forces...
...fables are done in mime, song and dance, plus direct asides to the audience. The performers are all toe, tongue, and letter-perfect. The company can boast of one of the standout contemporary clowns, Paul Sand. While he cannot reproduce the menagerie of animal sounds in this show that he does in Story Theatre, he is vastly amusing as a pixilated Mercury and equally funny as Phaeton, the cocky offspring of Phoebus (Apollo) who finds that he cannot actually control the horses that draw the chariot...