The mythological story of Queen Alphise of Bactria (Anna Maria Panzarella), who must marry a descendant of Boreas, the God of the North Wind, but loves Abaris Paul Agneww), a charming man of uncertain heritage, or so it seems, is a metaphor for the role of natural elements in human life.
The working girls are looked after by a proprietor, Pat, who doesn't own the joint but who runs it for a loony old goat known as Monsewer, who is unaware of the business being conducted under his roof; an Irish patriot of uncertain heritage, he's too busy maintaining a state of military readiness for what he is certain is the coming revolution against the British.
History has a way of turning hard-won, uncertain struggles into genteel heritage.
There are things you really ought to know about Baron Alexander von Reisden -- disturbing things about this Austrian scientist's uncertain parentage and violent heritage -- before plunging into the dense narrative thickets of A CITIZEN OF THE COUNTRY (Ballantine, $24.95).
Those tests didn't help couples who were uncertain of their ethnic heritage, plus the tests were very limited in scope.
The number of whales in the two gulfs (Golfo San José and Golfo Nuevo, off the Peninsula Valdes on the Patagonian coast of Argentina, a Unesco World Heritage site) is uncertain.
In this eastern city, which boasts a proud industrial heritage but has a highly uncertain future, the talk among the shoppers was of medical charges, money worries and the malign influence of Brussels bureaucrats and profligate Greeks.
The party born in a township church in 1912 is at a crossroads, looking back on a proud heritage beyond praise, but contemplating an uncertain and perilous future.
Instead, she remembers her father's efforts to remind Native Americans of the dignity of their heritage, at a time when its fate was uncertain.
The English have never been ones to leave their heritage out of the calculation, particularly now as they confront uncertain times ahead and reduced global clout.
There's a vivid array of fellow residents – crossbow toting hunters, real estate interests, adulterers, heritage fascists, gossips, drunks, louts, more crazy artists – with multifarious uncertain agendas and grainy backstories.
