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...name was William Diller Hollenbaugh. Short, skinny and stooped, missing five front teeth, he had spent six of his 44 years in prison, 13 in an insane asylum. Since moving to the Shade Gap area several years ago, he had lived as a hermit in a two-room hilltop shack, subsisting on wild game and state relief checks...
...Desist's 14-room home at Saint-Jean-leBlanc and arrested him in connection with smuggling 209 Ibs. of pure heroin into the U.S. The narcotics, worth $2,800,000 wholesale and as much as $100 million retail (after cutting and diluting), had been found in a shack at a Columbus, Ga., trailer court. It was the biggest single haul of heroin ever captured...
Lean got what he went for, including the most tantalizing shot in the script. It calls for a frosted pane of glass, through which Zhivago is gazing, to dissolve into a field vibrant with daffodils. Lean found the perfect pane in a ski shack, hauled it into the open for the cameras. Then back the camera crew went to Spain, where 4,000 potted daffodils were put in place to complete the scene. On film, the sequence takes only an instant to show the change of seasons, but for Lean the effect is essential...
...fall in love and Giuliana begins to open herself up to the world again, Antonioni takes us to the radar installations at Medicina, where the tall masts stand bare along the level landscape. But lest we suspect that Giuliana has become disoriented, the director uses a small black shack as a focal point, the same way a painter might have used it, to keep us from any sensation of dizziness...
...another scene, the characters hold a Roman orgy in a little black shack, during which the men pry up the skirts of their women but never actually make love. Bright red paint coats the walls, much discussion of aphrodisiacs takes place, and a fire casts its glow over the would-be lovers. This savage yet inhibited emotion represents the flip side of the new scientific rationality...