Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour special, to be aired next year, she is arrested, hauled off to the Bastille, kidnaped, ravished and accused of being a witch. In the gallows scene Lesley-Anne was forced to stand with a noose around her neck and her hands tied behind her back while she balanced atop a two-foot-high stool on a platform 15 feet above the ground. All this while Quasimodo, the hunchback bell ringer, played by Anthony Hopkins, 43, clumsily scrambled about trying to free her. "Anthony is no stunt man," says Lesley-Anne, "and the makeup job left him with just...
...YOUR'RE A FUCKING CAPITALIST! Does your daddy own a factory?" she yelled from atop the steps. "You like Stalin! You want to kill Jews," came the response, from a woman whose placard read "Feed Brezhnev to the Workers." For 45 minutes, a dozen from each side kept the shouting match alive, sometimes with a little shoving, the dialectic turned physical. For years, Harvard's Spartacus Youth League have held their weekly study session and speeches; for years they've been ignored by all but regular readers of Workers Vanguard. But last week they picked a topic explosive enough actually...
...sharp diplomatic words, the Swedes agreed to let the sub go. The episode embarrassed not only the Soviets; the Swedes did not explain how a submarine of 1950s vintage had managed to penetrate its waters undetected until a passing fisherman in a dory looked over and there she was, atop the rocks...
...paleontologist at Connecticut's Wesleyan University, John Mclntosh, and the Pittsburgh museum's David Berman sorted through tons of bones, re-examined the original site descriptions and discovered the 1909 skull switch. As a result, a longer head was retrieved from the dusty storage bins and mounted atop the Carnegie's Brontosaurus. Casts were also shipped of to other institutions, which, like the Pea body, are gradually making the change...
...that instant, Gance cuts to an overhead shot. A country road divides the hillside from the fields. From atop the hill, the camera spies the tiny figure of a man weaving across the screen. The road is crooked, his purpose, straight. Behind him ride the troops, their motion no longer the fluid, individual beauty of the previous shot. The silence implied by the distance from the action immediately withdraws from personal involvement to a historical perspective, the entire scene displayed rather than a slice...