"Twice the steel had pierced the heart, twice the lungs had been reached with the deadly point of the stiletto, while the jugular vein and the carotid artery were both severed," it said, according to Mr. Feldman's book.
After American-observed negotiations with the Palestinians, Mr. Barak decided to eliminate a deadly point of friction by taking the domestic political risk of what he termed a temporary evacuation of Israeli forces from Joseph's Tomb, a heavily fortified island of Israeli control in the middle of Palestinian-ruled Nablus, in the West Bank.
This sad reality was captured in Ken Kesey's classic novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which memorably describes stigma as "the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me – and the great voice of millions chanting, 'Shame.
Spiked rope traps will swing down into your path in places, requiring a swift shot to a brick-like mass to bring the deadly points crashing down before impalement but the ropes themselves are weirdly bullet proof.
In "The Dictator," which pokes fun at the excesses of a Qaddafi-like villain, he also has some geopolitical points to make about back-room arms and oil deals, and in a climactic speech, a deadly sharp point to convey about the sorry state of American democracy.
Still, there was a deadly serious point at the core of his dark, offhand quip.
The Times examined several cases in which mental health problems caused or exacerbated by war pushed already troubled families to a deadly breaking point.
But underneath the farce lies a deadly serious point about how Britain played into the United States' hands in 2003, bolstering its arguments about the imminent danger posed by Saddam Hussein and thus helping guarantee that the war could go ahead.
For about two years, government snipers had used the four-story building as a deadly vantage point.
The underdog Sailors 14-144), coffng off the program's first postseason victory in six seasons, nearly kept pace with the Warriors (24-4), who used points off turnovers and some deadly three-point shooting to prevail, 87-78.
Madden, a strong 6-9 forward; Manor, a deadly three-point shooter, and Leonard, a nifty point guard, formed the hub of an experienced team that won a school-record 14 consecutive games over the second half of the season.
