Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Music Room. A fat old man sits on the roof of a rotting palace and stares emptily across an empty plain. A servant appears...
...warned. The fat old man on the roof is the hero of this movie, and movies about fat old men who don't even know what month it is are clearly not for everybody, especially if the old man speaks Bengali and the English subtitles twitch. Besides, the film is about 20 minutes too long. But people with a tolerance for the bizarre will greet this work by India's Satyajit Ray (who made the magnificent Apu trilogy) as a subtle and poignant tragedy of pride, the story of a man who cut his own throat to remind...
...that was long ago. Now, a fat old man sits on the roof of a rotting palace and stares emptily across an empty plain...
...friends of the trapped miners, along with more than 200 newsmen, gathered around in agonized vigil, the rescue team's drill bit deeper toward Fellin and Throne. With every turn of that drill the danger increased that the rescue efforts would cave in what remained of the roof of that underground, pick-hewn grotto in which Fellin, Throne and, surely not too many feet away, Lou Bova, had been trapped...
Built on about a third of an acre in the center of Los Angeles only a few minutes' walk from his office, it is enclosed by a stone wall and designed around a sweep of palm trees?one of which grows up through the roof. There is a 90-ft. swimming pool, a dining area that can be three separate rooms or a single one big enough to seat 120 people. Each of the four bedrooms is designed to do double duty as a study, each has complete privacy, and each is near the kitchen. And the big thing about...