Word: cristo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blind pirate approaches Jim Hawkins? inn, and for more than a minute we hear nothing but menacing footfalls, a fierce knock on the door, a rat-tling of the locked latch and a slow retreat. For the dungeon scenes in a magnificent version of "The Count of Monte Cristo," Welles (Edmond Dantes) and Collins (the Abb?) lay on the CBS men?s room floor and spoke into a micro-phone at the base of the toilet seat, while the toilet?s flushing suggested waves breaking against the prison walls. Welles had used the same trick in "Les Mis?rables...
...least high spirits, informed the choice and telling of the tales. Typically, the books selected for adaptation were melo-dramas and adventure stories: "Treasure Island," "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Sherlock Holmes," "A Tale of Two Cities," "The Thirty-nine Steps," "The Man Who Was Thursday" - Great Lit Lite. It was very much a boy?s game (Moorhead and Arlene Francis got the rare women?s roles) and the Mercury actors would play it for all its worth, with a thrill in the voice and, one imagines, a smile in the eyes. The tone was nothing so easy or derisive...
...scholarship - the mixture of history and an-ecdote, the oral eyebrow raised at "establishments," the almost sexual acceleration of subsidiary phrases, the assumption that listeners will know who Reubens was, the "?tis" and the "Pittsburgh" - in this honey of an intro, written by Houseman for "The Count of Monte Cristo...
...Patrick Magaloff, director of the French Olympic Committee's anti-doping mission. "Because that taboo has been broken during their careers, athletes who have doped are often less inhibited about using drugs in normal life than clean athletes or nonathletes." That risk is confirmed by officials at the Monte Cristo Clinic, where 20% of patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction report a background in high-level sports...
...France, studies have indicated the scale of the problem. A 1999 report by experts at Paris' Monte Cristo drug treatment center found 18% of the 5,000 high-level athletes surveyed reporting drug dependency-most consequent to sports doping. That inquiry was launched after the discovery that 20% of the clinic's patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction had backgrounds in élite sports. Generally, French sports medicine experts believe around 10% of the nation's 13 million registered athletes have used performance-enhancing substances-a practice that will ultimately lead to addiction in 300,000-350,000 athletes...