Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wherever the visitor goes, he is charmed and intrigued by the place names. A limestone peak in Kweilin is called Piled Silk Hill for its varicolored layers of rock; the structure at its top, up 400 (count 'em) stone steps, is the Cloud-Catching Pavilion. A little pleasance in Wusih has been known for 470 years as Leave Your Pleasure Garden-ever since the man who built it was summoned to high office in far-off Peking and, not being able to take his heart's delight with him, bequeathed it to the populace. The spectacular park...
Screenplay by Peter Stone...
Aside from the witty lines he fed Mor ley, Screenwriter Peter Stone has concoct ed a script strewn with terrible puns ("Ban the bombe") and snickering double-entendre gags that make all the tired connections between food and sex. The arbitrary plot about a chef murderer hops from place to place on the slightest whim. It is little more than an excuse for cameo appearances by top European actors (Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean Rochefort) and restaurants (Paris' Tour d' Argent, London's Café Royal). The settings are sumptuously photographed by John Alcott (Barry Lyndon...
...keep going until you hit Montauk Point, the eastern tip of the island, windswept home of fishermen and lobstermen and a charming stone lighthouse that somehow never managed to keep scores of Atlantic clippers away from the homicidal rocks off the coast. Montauk is also the home of Perry Duryea, who wants very much to be governor of the state, and who may well get his wish quite soon...
Harvard's own Harry Parker is seeded eighth in the elite singles, and former lightweight coach John Higginson ranks third in the midweights. Super sculler-Greg Stone, the defending champ in the elites, will miss this year's Head in favor of the World Championships in New Zealand, but sister Jenny will carry on the family name in the women's singles...