Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the patrol commander squeezed off some warning shots, most of the Mafiosi melted into the mountain woods. The rest, taking cover behind rocks or in the scraggy Calabrian underbrush, opened up with pistols, shotguns and hunting rifles, wounding seven cops and taking two injuries of their own in a half-hour firefight. When it was all over, the police gathered up a sackful of weapons, 35 cars that had been abandoned on goat paths, and 21 gunmen aged 19 to 75. But the pezzi grossi (big shots) got away...
Following a pattern she began in Hollywood in the 1930s. Hepburn is always one of the first on stage, works the hardest and the longest without a break, and is among the last to leave. "She's Man Mountain Dean," says Jerry Adler, production stage manager. "She leaves us younger folks for dead at the end of the day." When she's not in a scene, she perches on a staircase munching things-packets of meat and cheese and fruit she has brought from home-listening and watching the onstage action over and over...
...slips out of the northern neck of Manhattan and flies to the left of the live Sound, one swoops in time onto the Golden River, and dodging its shining beauty, now right, now left, one comes after a hundred miles of lake, hill, and mountain, in the Old Bay State. Then at the foot of high Mt. Everett one takes a solemn decision: left is sweet, old Sheffield; but pass it stolidly by and slip gently right into tiny South Egremont which always sleeps. Then wheel right again and come to the Egremont Plain and the House of the Black...
...people think that profiles have to uncover the fact that your local jock captained three high school sports, played in All-State Orchestra, was valedictorian of his class, and spends his summers mountain climbing in Nepal...
...IMMORTALS OF THE MOUNTAIN by C. Virgil Gheorghiu. 186 pages. Henry Regnery. $5.95. This novel about Rumanian peasants mistreated by landholders is far below The Twenty-Fifth Hour, the author's post-World War II story of concentration camps...