But any attempt to open up a Lebanese "front" in the fighting risks the wider regional conflagration that so many Western diplomats fear.
The little fires of the title refer primarily to tiny pyres that Izzy, the youngest of the four Richardson children, sets alight on the beds of her family members, causing the conflagration that opens this novel of suburban mores.
As if the hydra-headed economic disaster and the heightened tension between nuclear Pakistan and nuclear India were not enough to quicken the pulse, the Bush era is ending, and the Obama era is opening, with yet another conflagration in the most intractable, faith-dazed, and history-inflamed spot on earth.
In 1964, soon after the restaurant opened, Richard Burton, in the first conflagration of his love affair with Elizabeth Taylor, was starring in the famous production of Hamlet directed by John Gielgud.
While air door is opened, the conveyer belt gets into general conflagration at t = 320 s.
First came the conflagration that brings about the fall of the gods at the end of Wagner's "Götterdämmerung," and now the fiery finale that martyrs a religious sect in Mussorgsky's "Khovanshchina," which opened on Monday.
Mr. Gold's stylized staging of this landmark play, which opened on Thursday night at the Laura Pels Theater, places a stark, literal emphasis on the oppressive intimacy that causes constant conflagrations when the raging fire within Jimmy Porter (Mr. Rhys) meets the kindling of his wife's meek disengagement and his best friend's cordial neutrality.
The trucks were observed via an unmanned drone, which reportedly saw no civilians nearby; the hijackers opened the fuel valves to lighten their load and told local villagers they could fill their cans; and bombs from the sky hit the trucks, causing, predictably enough, a massive conflagration.
The conflagration spread, and fighting raged throughout the day.
"Contrary to the U.F.A.'s statement, it was the open-door problem — greatly exacerbated by severe winds — that fueled this fire into an unstoppable conflagration," the Fire Department said.
