The plot is not quite Medea, but this memoir is a kind of setting ablaze of a life's work that for Gordon is now inextricable from heartbreak.
Her sister and her family made it to Petaluma, she posted later, but prospects of saving the home were grim as photos streamed in of entire blocks of homes ablaze and churches in ashes.
On a winter day in 1952, he felt the grip of adrenaline and a six-strap ejection harness as the tandem cockpit nosed toward Earth, he pulled furiously at the controls as the jet plummeted to within a thousand feet of setting ablaze a swath of January-brown Wichita farmland.
BELGRADE, Serbia — Demonstrators attacked the United States Embassy and set part of it ablaze on Thursday as tens of thousands of angry Serbs took to the streets of Belgrade to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence.
Nothing could be bad, or ugly or sad, with that fairy music winging its way across the fells, so, feeling a little better, I looked north-west across the new whiteness at Scafell Pike, rearing up behind the Crinkles, and the rounded dome, like an atomic cloud-burst, of Great Gable - both of them ablaze with the setting sun.
Angered by television images of Baghdad ablaze and allied columns rolling across Iraq, tens of thousands of protesters from Berlin and London to Indonesia and Malaysia took to the streets today to condemn the United States-led war, though the numbers were far below the millions who gathered before the war.
IF YOU fly into Port of Spain at night over the Gulf of Paria, you see the island of Trinidad ablaze with lights from roads, suburbs, shopping malls, building sites and a necklace of chemical and steel plants.
The natural landscape inspired some of his most implacably innovative paintings, roiled of surface, ablaze with color and steeped in feeling.
With the collapse of both towers by 10 30 a.m., larger pieces of the twin towers had smashed parts of 7 World Trade and set whole clusters of floors ablaze.
