Word: skyscraperism
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When in Rome..., but when in San Francisco, improvise. At least that was what Italian Director Lina Wertmuller did on the set of A Night Full of Rain. While shooting a scene with Actor Gianearlo Giannini atop a 52-story skyscraper, Lina decided that the Bank of America building simply...
> Dec. 7, 1976. Dolphin Lair, 21, a janitor whose father died of lung cancer, held a man hostage atop a Los Angeles skyscraper for 2½ hours to warn against the dangers of tobacco. Result: he gave up without a struggle.
The key to the city's future may be the fate of central Beirut. Before the war, this was the commercial and financial hub of the Middle East. During the fighting, a 30-block patchwork of streets in the center was reduced to rubble; 6,000 shops and offices...
As a public advocate of the present Korean government, it mattered less to Coolidge than it might to others that the KTA had been set up by the Park regime in the later 1960s when foreign trade rapidly escalated, to determine that all Koreans engaged therein should be 'reputable'--first...
Dean writes crisply and clearly, turns some good phrases ("Thompson had me on a tightrope and he seemed to know how to shake the wire") and some bad ones ("The bottom of my stomach fell out, as it does when I look down from the top of a skyscraper").