Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When in Rome..., but when in San Francisco, improvise. At least that was what Italian Director Lina Wertmuller did on the set of A Night Full of Rain. While shooting a scene with Actor Gianearlo Giannini atop a 52-story skyscraper, Lina decided that the Bank of America building simply wasn't high enough. "I had to stand on top of an 18-ft. tower she had built on top of it," complains Giancarlo, who starred in Seven Beauties, Swept Away and three other Wertmuller movies. "That's typical of Lina, to alter everything she finds, even...
...town of Belmonte, perched atop a rocky hilltop in northern Portugal, is dominated by a giant stone cross, a ruined castle and the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family. On each Holy Thursday, Father Jose Marins Registo brings from the church an image of Jesus bearing the cross to Calvary. Followed by children dressed as angels, he parades through the streets to the main square, where he meets a second procession displaying an image of the Virgin Mary. On Good Friday there is another procession and a symbolic burial, after which the priest carries a cross from house...
...supposed to be a festive birthday party. The European Community turned 20 last week, and leaders of its nine member states celebrated the anniversary by gathering in the damask-lined hall atop Rome's Capitoline Hill where the unique organization was born...
...Ayrton is the invisible force of destiny responsible for the tight, logical progression of the production, then it is the Narrator who continues the director's work after the curtain goes up. Like a commanding general surveying a battle from his horse atop a hill, the Narrator is both involved with and separated from the action. Consistently drawing the lessons to be learned from the playing out of the scenes, the Narrator is the omniscient, controlling eye Tolstoy wished to, but knew he could...
...Communists-and Chiang Ch'ing-were headquartered at Yenan until 1947, when a Nationalist attack finally dislodged them. More than two years of bitter civil war followed, ending in the rout of Nationalist forces and their retreat to Taiwan. On Oct. 1, 1949, Mao Tse-tung stood atop Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace and proclaimed the People's Republic of China...