She changed her name to Tina Turner (even before marrying Ike in 1962), and, as the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, the ensemble, which included a trio of female backing vocalists known as the Ikettes, thrived as a live act largely because of Tina's fiery stage presence and Ike's rubber-faced guitar-playing antics.
In Tom Morris's big, fiery staging, a particular line rings out as never before: "Is the accuser always right?" Morris's production is not a psychological revelation, in the manner of Ivo van Hove's tremendous, stripped-back staging of A View From the Bridge.
A fiery Trump took the stage in Phoenix vowing there would be "no amnesty" for undocumented immigrants, that he would build a "beautiful" wall along the border, and that Mexico would pay for it.
In the two years since she poisoned her 5-year-old son with cold medicine and staged a fiery car crash with his body wedged on a back-seat floorboard, Narges Shafeirad has never publicly said why she did it.
The dragon at the gates one recent night turned out to be neighborly, a drivable scrap-steel behemoth created by two young artists whose friends rode it to the museum and staged a fiery, quintessentially Detroit protest on the lawn, with fuel-soaked letters spelling out "Save the Art".
In an extraordinary public apology, NBC said Tuesday night that it erred in staging a fiery test crash of a General Motors pickup truck for its "Dateline NBC" news program and agreed to settle a defamation suit filed by the auto maker.
It consisted of highly seasoned chickpeas, cooked almost to a pudding stage in a fiery berbere sauce.
"It's not just a simple revolution," Oleh Tyahnybok, an opposition leader with the national Svoboda party, told the crowd in a fiery speech from a giant stage.
Mr. Avila, a fiery preacher who paces the stage feverishly, speaking of God, the Devil and miracles of faith, is a crowd-pleasing force behind one of the major religious shifts among American Hispanics in the last quarter century.
It is in this lush terrain that the stage is set for a fiery disaster — the cul-de-sacs and winding wooded roads into the backcountry of Butte County.
That said, "Three Stages of Amazement" is a fiery, deeply involving book with an eccentric streak that keeps it constantly surprising.
