But how to dress -- that is the question that had designers knocking themselves out over the weekend as mere mortals discussed war.
(The clutch was an old Oleg Cassini, and according to Steven Gaines's excellent biography "Simply Halston," the two designers were mortal enemies, warring over credit for Jackie Kennedy's pillbox hat).
Blessed with a backstory that directly invokes Vlad the Impaler, Oldman plays Dracula as a love-lorn mortal who declares war on God, thereby achieving damned immortality.
They aren't all protest songs, by any means — Ernest V. Stoneman's "Uncle Sam and the Kaiser" is a victory romp, and Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers make an antic breakdown out of "Johnnie, Get Your Gun" — but they all reflect the mortal truth of war, often with shivers of dark humor.
From noble deaths in civil war, mortal combat between gladiators, political execution and suicide, to the deathly dinner of Domitian, the harrowing deaths of women such as the mythical Lucretia and Nero's mother Agrippina, as well as instances of Christian martyrdom, Edwards engagingly explores the culture of death in Roman literature and history.
The company isn't releasing many specifics about that team, except to say that it includes "game veterans" who've worked on God of War, Mortal Kombat and others.
Although Israel and Hamas view each other as mortal enemies, this war has forced them once again to recognize that neither can destroy the other, and they must now begin to moderate their religious or ideological narratives, necessitated by the changing circumstances.
All this talk about war and mortal enemies places recent efforts to restrict information from federal agencies in a broader, more threatening context.
It was at this point that the restless Jesse, who had seemingly relished the adventures and mortal gambles of the war years, began to become identified with the fury of a defeated South.
