Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affirms his own guilt--"Who can be innocent again on this mountain of skulls!" --yet he risks forgiveness, and love, once more. He says "Hello," to Holga, ending the play as he began...
...veteran of 20 years as a Trib reporter, Mrs. Crist (rhymes with hissed) began her career as a film critic two years ago. In an early review, she blasted a much ballyhooed movie, Spencer's Mountain, then showing at New York's largest movie house, Radio City Music Hall. The movie's producer, Warner Bros., promptly canceled all advertising in the Trib, while the Music Hall reduced its linage. The Trib answered with an editorial denouncing the "inane" pressure tactics. "A newspaper whose comments and critiques can be controlled by advertisers," said the Trib, "cheats its readers...
Cleopatra was "at best a major disappointment, at worst an extravagant exercise in tedium. The mountain of notoriety has produced a mouse...
...mother should be transparent, a ruin of beauty. Maureen Stapleton is as solid as a mountain of pasta; one cannot see through her to the mythic past. There is bougainvillaea, and weeping willow, and a century of wounded Southern pride in the prose arias that Tennessee Williams gave the role; all one hears in Miss Stapleton's voice is the jagged, chop-chop talk of a tenement mother. The garrulity is present but not the gallantry...
...author in various disguises, and this one (in which he bears the name Duluoz) fills in the Kerouac chronicle for the period just before On the Road was published. As the novel begins, the author is finishing a two-month squat as a fire watcher on a mountain in Washington. The mountain across the valley from Kerouac's cabin, when seen from upside down, looks like a "hanging bubble in the illimitable ocean of space." Why is it seen from upside down? Because the author is doing a headstand. Why is he standing on his head? Because...