Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Form-conscious Director Walsh can set up a trivial shot of gangsters listening to a car radio in a windswept mountain lideout, and make grey weather, the texture of trees and the vitality of the figures add up to visual pleasure. An unaffected director of home and bedroom scenes, he even manages, without bathos or leer, to jet away with a shot of Cagney sitting on lis mother...
...Author Merton (now Father Louis of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky) such a life seems the surest way to bring a man close to God. What he finds lacking in it is enough time for contemplation. As he complained in The Seven Storey Mountain, "The life is too active . . . too much...
Last May 17,000 police made an exhaustive beat of Giuliano's mountain hideout. He slipped through the net (rumor said by joining a bicycle race that was passing through the area) and took a lonesome vacation in the mountain villages on the lower slopes, near Palermo. Police had already arrested his sisters Mariannina and Giuseppina; his mother is locked up on charges of extortion. The dragnet picked up several of his aides...
Catching a mountain lion in a coyote trap is quite a surprise. Finance Minister Ramon Beteta last week found how it feels. He had set out to run down the silver smugglers who had been cheating the government of export taxes and dollar earnings. He ended up with the ultra-conservative Banco de Comercio, S.A., the country's biggest private banking house, on his hands...
...sleepy village of Manchester, Vt. (pop. 325) sat up and took notice last week. White-haired ladies from porch rockers of the Equinox House, straw-hatted farmers, Green Mountain tourists and artists by the station-wagonload jammed into the red brick gymnasium where the Southern Vermont Artists' Association was staging its 20th annual show...