Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following this needling, Frost set aside his favorite white wines (Montrachet and Pouilly Fuissé) and began closeting himself with his staff and reading far into the nights in his suite atop the Beverly Hilton Hotel. He was still in a mood for cramming, fortunately, as his rented blue Mercedes rolled toward the final Watergate taping. En route, he read the statute on obstruction of justice that was to prove so helpful...
...this, Director Tom O'Horgan (Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar) has rolled out the ribbons and ordered up some eye-catching costumes from Designer Randy Barcelo. The first entrance of the natives has a typically splendiferous O'Horgan touch. The sun rises to reveal Princess Mtalba sitting high atop a pyramidlike structure. Then the queen is discovered in a formal pose just below her. Then the entire population of the village emerges from under the queen's matriarchal robes. It is also a nice touch to portray the native people (but not the leaders) with dancers and tuck...
British Bluesman John Mayall, 43, has a different idea of flash. The floor of his pool has a huge erotic painting. He has one of L.A.'s most extensive collections of pornography. Perched atop a ridge, Mayall's $230,000 house has a Tudor-style living room festooned with saddles and snakeskins. But Hogarth prints lead up winding stairs to a large alphabetized porn library...
Those who have never seen Dolly gasp. That mountain of a teased blond wig and the hot-pink, jeweled jumpsuit are spectacular. Only five feet tall, she totters atop five-inch gold heels. Swinging into All I Can Do, she catches the eyes of the people in the front rows and plays to them, talking, teasing...
...scenario could be repeated endlessly: elk hunting in Montana, oil prospecting in Alaska, a quail shoot in Mexico, a social-cum-business bash in the Mojave Desert, a sales spiel atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building. The H-H passenger rides high above smog and speed limits, encounters no parking problems, and gets farther from the madding crowd than a hyperthyroid hermit with climbing irons...