Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Menelaus ride through. Suddenly, a man keels over in the path of the horses. He is duly removed. This is to show you how hot it is. Or take the scene in Argos, when a messenger delivers the letter from Agamemnon to Clytemnestra. She leans out, over the beautiful mountains, and calls, "Iph-i-gen-ia!" (Echo: "Iphigenia, Iphigenia.') The camera zooms down the mountain, music swelliing, Iphigenia whirling around into the frame, arms outstretched, and suddenly we are in the midst of The Sound of Music. Cacoyannis also enjoys choreographing heads as they turn toward one another, apparently fantasizing...
...south from China in the late 1940s and various tribesmen in southern Burma who have never acknowledged the rule of Rangoon. All these groups long depended for most of their cash income not on jade but on the rake-off from the lucrative opium trade that originates in the mountain poppy fields of the Golden Triangle of Laos, Burma and Thailand. Now, with Thailand's sharp crackdown on drug smugglers, the jade trade is growing in importance...
Saudi Arabia's production of mysterious millionaires is almost as impressive as its output of oil-and now one of those little-known Saudis has volunteered to start digging Bert Lance out from under his mountain of debts. Ghaith Pharaon, 37, has offered to buy 60% of the stock in Lance's National Bank of Georgia for $20 a share, or about $4 above market value. Whether other stockholders accept or not, Lance will turn over 60% of his 200,000-odd shares to Pharaon and get a check for about $2.4 million...
...point, the movie has been strictly mediocre; if the movie is worth anything, it is because of a spectacular finale with some impressive special effects. Fortunately, the last 15 minutes of the movie will disappoint few people. The aliens arrive in a huge dazzling spacecraft as large as the mountain it lands next to. Several auxilliary space ships with adjunct paraphernalia will satisfy the craving of any sci-fi fan. The creatures return all the individualb that they had abducted earlier, including the boy (who became quite enamoured with the aliens), and, to top it off, the aliens make...
Maybe it's the non-academic, eat-sleep-and-think hockey atmosphere of the vacation jaunts. Maybe it's coming back to the pressure of Reading Period and even more pressuring fight for a playoff berth. Maybe it's that good mountain air. Maybe it's the fact that ther's nothing to do in Potsdam, New York so why not play hockey...