They included a magnificent Pericles (2003), framed by the image of refugees shambling across the stage to the sound of gunfire, and a stylised Titus Andronicus (2006), in which there was not a trace of blood but simply rivers of red silk pouring from the mouths and hands of the maimed and murdered.
Seawater isn't simply concentrated river water; rivers carry in so much sodium, magnesium, and potassium that the ocean should be far richer in these elements than it is, while calcium presents the opposite problem.
One road in Bravo Company's district, though, seemed peaceful, and it was called, simply, River Road.
The first group of 25 elephants transported from Kruger to Mozambique in 2001 simply crossed rivers to get around the eight-foot-high, 80-mile-long chain-link fence on Kruger's border to return home.
The sepia-toned era of winter sports on the Hudson is largely dead, not because of advances in home entertainment or newer extreme sports, but mainly because of a pattern of warmer winters, the river simply doesn't freeze over as often or as deeply as it once did.
The complex system of this run-of-the-river dam is designed as a low-impact alternative to conventional narrow dams, which simply block the river and build up a huge reservoir behind the dam.
The end of this "river" simply tapers away to nothing and disappears on the mare plains.
Some simply say the river's behavior and ecology are too complicated to understand fully.
If you reach a dead end (or a river) simply turn the corner and go in a new direction.
He says he's still surprised by how many people initially think his son simply crossed the river to attend a city school in Queens, N.Y.
