Word: turmoils
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Angels has indeed electrified reviewers with its radical political perspective and literary style, but is at heart a fairly conventional drama about the intersections of three households in turmoil. The focal point is the apartment shared by two effeminate gay men, one afflicted with the disease but unflinching in his courage, the other healthy but panicky, guilty and increasingly unable to cope. The healthy lover works at the same courthouse as a religious Mormon law clerk: despite good intentions and political ambitions, the Mormon is rapidly losing a lifelong battle to suppress his own homosexual urges. His mentor...
Dionyshus (pupetecred> by Raphed Sperry), god of aged grape juice and its accompanying revelry, open the play with a lament for hometown Athena. The ongoing war with Sparta and the deaths of two, great tragedians, Aeschylus (Howard Miller) and Euripedes (Tanya Bezrah), have left the city in turmoil, Dionysius journeys to the underworld to fetch one of the late, great playwrights to save the war-torn polis...
...fatal shooting quickly plunged the tiny gold-mining town of Jamestown into turmoil. Reporters poured in, tabloid-TV shows pressed for details, and local supporters took up a collection for Nesler's defense. Donna Brewer, who runs a cafe next to the courthouse, said Driver "deserved what he got. That's the worst crime there is." And Nesler's sister claimed that Driver, who had a previous conviction for child molestation, had "smirked" when he entered the courtroom. Almost lost in the hubbub was the district attorney, who called the shooting "reprehensible." Nesler, who was freed on $500,000 bond...
...nation is going through political turmoil unprecedented in four decades. Corruption in the party that has governed since 1955 has become so noxious that some of its most popular members are threatening to walk out. The ruling party could even lose its majority in the lower house of parliament, starting a period of prolonged floundering...
Economic slump and political turmoil slow the juggernaut...