Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying Down to Rio. In Rio, where he was comfortably ensconced last week in a $300-a-month apartment with a view of famed Sugar Loaf Mountain, Belle blandly denied that he had stolen a dime. "All I got," said he, "is $2,600-my wife's savings." As to the other $800,000 or so, Belle said unscrupulous former associates stole it. He also said that he would "never" return to the U.S. "I guess permanent exile is punishment enough...
Angling for a friendly reaction in the U.S., Rebel Raúl Castro's men freed the rest of their U.S. hostages last week "because of the Lebanese situation.'' U.S. Navy helicopters flew to a meadow near the eastern Cuban mountain town of Puriales and on four successive days brought out the eleven marines and 18 sailors kidnaped three weeks ago on a bus outside the Guantánamo naval base. The play for U.S. good will was frank. Said the rebel commander in Puriales: "If the admiral wants to send you into battle in Lebanon...
Perhaps too facile, he has whisked off a skyscraper design overnight, took only 15 days to plan Caracas' Museum of Modern Art, a pyramid that will rest upside down atop Bello Monte mountain. "I study the problem, the arc of the sun, the lay of the land," he said. "Then I mull over it for a couple of days. Finally the idea comes." One result of such fast work: dwellers sometimes complain about the lack of closets or kitchen windows in Niemeyer houses; builders sweat over specifications that often make light of construction problems. At Brasilia the builder...
...song, but it was also a shadow on the show. For all his big-money-making successes on Broadway, Bloomgarden had to scrounge to find the $300,000 producing tab. He thought that the Columbia Broadcasting System would jump for The Music Man. CBS had made a mountain of money investing in hit shows and pressing musical albums; e.g., the company footed the $400,000 bill for My Fair Lady, collected both royalties and extra profits from the smash sale of My Fair Lady recordings. "These CBS executives filed in and sat down," Bloomgarden recalls. "They were cold and serious...
...grasp" or "stop" them? The real problem is spontaneity: how to "let go" and "go with" the permanent impermanence. The Zen disciple must destroy his ego-consciousness, until his real self calmly floats on the world's confusion like a pingpong ball skimming down a mountain stream...