Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike Redford, DeNiro is Proteus. redford never relinquishes his healthy, Rock-Mountain looks. When you say Robert Redford you know what you will get. But with DeNiro there is a volatility that makes you think of him in many faces and with a little anxiety. In Mean Streets he was nervy, wiry, and speed-driven, in The Deer Hunter aloof and grimly self-possessed, in Raging Bull sinewy, stupid, animal-like, as well as lazy...
...horseplaying priest, however, who best expresses O'Connor's unhappy but indissoluble Gaelic family. "O Lord," he prays, "a man gives up the whole world for You ... his friends and his job, and goes off to a bare mountain where he can't even tell his troubles to the man alongside him; and still he keeps something back, some little thing to remind him of what he gave up. With me 'twas the horses and with this man 'twas the sup of beer, and I dare say there are fellows inside who have...
BEGINNING INNOCENTLY, like most White Mountain trails, it tramps over springy forest bottom for half a mile. Then, of course, it turns up. For an hour it climbs through woods, at first with just enough grade for some huffing and puffing, but soon roots across the path become ladders, and branches by the side turn into railings...
...staggered away from the "Whizzer" and stumbled into the line for "The Demon." This ride seemed a more conventional roller coaster with a hill, a turn, a rise, a dip, none of which looked terribly menacing. But as the line snaked its way around a plaster mountain placed there for atmospheric effect, "The Demon's" devilish aspects revealed themselves. I had seen the tame initial drop; I had not seen the loop that towered over the fake mountain. My first inclination was to leave the line, but embarrassment is a powerful force. I stayed put. A few minutes later...
...contrast, there were those who chose to fight, knowing the danger of their actions, and others who really had no choice. Pryce-Jones buries his own description of the resistance movement and the Jewish community under a mountain of detail. He is unfortunately fascinated by the various underground groups and their foes in the German and Vichy hierarchy. But the heroes speak well enough for themselves...