Word: mountaintop
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...making $500,000 a year, has two children, a philosophy ("God is my kids, my old lady,* green grass, trees, machines and animals"), a mountaintop Hollywood home, and business interests worth $300,000. In the language of producers, he is white-hot. He has just finished Love with the Proper Stranger with Natalie Wood, and he is making Soldier in the Rain with Jackie Gleason and The Traveling Lady with Lee Remick. "I got loot, a family, property, and I'm heading for the big apple," he says, stepping on the gas. "You know-the brass ring. Everything...
...first might look like salacious humor turns out to be powerfully suggestive in a wholly different way. In Nocturne (opposite), the viewer's eye sweeps past the two somnambulant nudes, is carried across a terrace that is as desolate as the moon, ends up on a lonely mountaintop that looms against an empty sky. In Delvaux's enigmatic world, a street can turn into a maze leading to no one knows where; the manholes that often appear suggest a secret world beneath; a mirror on a sidewalk reflects a world that cannot be seen. Even Delvaux...
...days, most German youths do not have to go journeying for jobs. Big German companies pride themselves on the size and thoroughness of their apprentice programs. Siemens has 180 special instructors for its 6,300 apprentices. Daimler-Benz, whose founder Gottlieb Daimler rose from the apprentice ranks, has a mountaintop set aside for apprentice classrooms and recreational facilities...
...Maker's, as in her terror-gnawed bones she knows. Flora is a vulgar, bawdy, explosive clown in her 60s, an eternal show girl, who has buried six husbands and who, fingers warty with jewels, is still desperately, greedily, and somehow gallantly grabbing at life in a mountaintop villa in Italy. Indeed, she has three villas, pink, blue and white, all wired up in a walkie-talkie intercom system into which she dictates at all hours of the day and night what she ludicrously conceives to be Proustian memoirs of the international set. Up a goat's path...
...writhing in God's claws and cannot escape." Making the "terrible" discovery that God is never satisfied, he takes on one task after another-building a church, founding an order, risking his life in the Crusades, fasting for almost a year on a bitter cold mountaintop. On Mt. Alvernia, he receives the Stigmata in a vision that is pure Kazantzakis. Seeing the crucified Christ wrapped in flames, Francis cries in anguish: "I want more, more! The Resurrection!'' But Christ, echoing Kazantzakis' own belief, stonily replies: 'Crucifixion. Resurrection, and Paradise are identical.'' But Francis...