Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every sentimental object you associate with discovery. In Maine, it was "great plaid comforters and wooly blankets and white flannel sheets"; in Cambridge, it was the landlady who "did our linens for us and brought them up in a wicker basket"; in Barcelona, it was the linen and "a mountain breeze wafted the curtains into the room." The talk is violently expressive, sometimes so hysterical that lines, such...
...fresh protests from Christians and pro-Western Moslems. Chehab's choice for Premier was Rashid Karami, 37, a Moslem lawyer who led the rebel resistance in Tripoli. Chamoun's most fanatical backers vowed that they would fight rather than accept a Premier from "the barricades." From the mountain village to which he had retired, Chamoun fanned the flames with a statement: "The new Cabinet is not satisfactory to me." Members of the khaki-shirted Christian Phalange, a strong-arm outfit that has been in the forefront of the Lebanese fighting, printed posters proclaiming "Death rather than government...
Choreographer Ross based his work on an early (1902) Thomas Mann story, a sort of literary foothill to his later Magic Mountain. The ballet began in a stark hospital room done in astringent blues and whites. The tuberculous heroine (Ballerina Nora Kaye) beat feebly on the single closed door, panted, felt her heart, slithered onto a chair and sank to the floor in a crawling frenzy. She was joined there by the hero (Erik Bruhn). Together they clutched, held, tangled and disentangled in a series of movements that ranged from the supine to the ridiculous...
...Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha." A hip peg in a square world, Ray meets his oddball twin in Japhy Ryder, a twinkly-eyed Zen Buddhist hobohemian who lives in a shack at Berkeley, Calif. Japhy's remedy for a "sick civilization" is mountain climbing. But before the two buddies hit the trail, Japhy initiates Ray in a nonascetic pastime he calls "yabyum,"*and it makes such fictional standbys as nude mixed bathing seem mid-Victorian. A yabyummy blonde compliantly strips to the buff to play the role of the "holy concubine...
...Carton is introduced as an untrustworthy, melancholy rummy-brilliant lawyer and all that, but essentially a tosspot. Bogarde flips his banister's wig over happily married Lucic, and from then on, both sides of the English Channel are awash in his nobility. Director Ralph Thomas leaps like a mountain goat from peak to peak: Lucie's love for Charles Darnay, the revolutionary mobs swarming in the streets of Paris, and finally Sydney Carton's self-sacrificing death to save Darnay. But inevitably the film must miss many of the deeper shadows between the peaks...