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...dream of mountains. Mountain air is like none other, dry and thin, it crackles with energy. Like pure water, this cool air is hypotonic. With each breath, impurities and particulates, the shellac of concerns and obligations, leech out of my lungs and are expelled into the cool wind. I dream of freedom...
...descent continues, for me, until Monday. Then, having hit bottom, I will transform into a human bubble, light as air I will shoot up through the Harvard Trench of finals period, and undergo explosive decompression. I will float right to the top of the mythical mountain, and draw my first pure breath of freedom in more than a month. I can't wait...
...music of Brazil. There's a certain poetry to it all. I need some poetry to wrap this all up. It would have been completely perfect if the airplane speakers had been playing another Jobim song, "Corcovado." After all, I've returned to "Corcovado," the song and the mountain, several times in my reports. So why not end with a quote...
...Culp (who plays Jack's brother Bobby, as he did in an earlier TV movie). So when director Roger Donaldson chose him, Greenwood was as surprised as the rest of Hollywood. "I spent a week or so lying in bed thinking, 'Oh, God, this is way too big a mountain,'" he says. "And then I started to study...
...bullets and handcuffs. The system doesn't provide money for uniforms, for shoes. They get peanuts for a paycheck." Del Toro, who lived in Puerto Rico until he was 12, also studied with a dialect coach to master the rural Mexican accent. "I wanted it to be country, like mountain Mexico," he says, "instead of like Taco Bell or Speedy Gonzales...