In a time of gay marriage and an African-American president, what chords might the stage "Far From Heaven" strike?
Mr. Robertson has been beseeching heaven to strike the Supreme Court with divinely enforced retirements.
When Oronte says that heaven should strike him dead if he is lying, Alceste looks up to the high ceiling, as if waiting.
According to History of the Armenians by Agathangelos, Armenia's patron saint Gregory the Illuminator had a vision of Jesus Christ descending from heaven and striking the earth with a golden hammer to show where the cathedral should be built.
It was as though arrows were raining down from heaven to strike and crush the Tartars' arrogance.
Amazingly, no blue bolt crackled from the heavens to strike Ethier down.
"It's one of the things that's always struck me about heaven: if you believe in God and believe in heaven then you must believe in the opposite, the whole yin and yang thing of seeing everything in opposites.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Yet I was struck, while watching "Heaven's Gate" again recently in the new Criterion DVD release, by the lack of articulation between many takes; there were colossally, imposingly long takes, intercut by short ones, but there seemed to be no inherent dramatic necessity to the start and end of many of the takes.
Yet I was struck, while watching "Heaven's Gate" again recently in the new Criterion DVD release, by the lack of articulation between many takes; there were colossally, imposingly long takes, intercut by short ones, but there seemed to be no inherent dramatic necessity to the start and end of many of the takes.
The heavens opened, lightning flashed, thunder struck.
