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When she was out in the drizzle, however, Her Majesty's smile grew wanner and wanner, and sometimes disappeared. Her frustration was plain when, emerging from President Reagan's mountaintop Rancho del Cielo (Ranch in the Sky), she took a spritz of rain in the face. Recounted Brian Vine, the monocled correspondent of the London Daily Express: "She looked like she had backed a loser at the Newmarket races." Despite such signs of royal pique, her press secretary, Michael Shea, insisted that the Queen was unfazed by the weather. "She loves it," he declared. Then Shea got downright...
...sense of place and pace helps. When Teddy believes that the wounded President McKinley will recover and his own plans for the presidency may never succeed, the young Vice President flees to an Adirondack mountaintop: "The clouds parted unexpectedly, sunshine poured down on his head, and for a few moments a world of trees and mountains and sparkling water lay all around him . . . below a ranger was approaching, running, clutching the yellow slip of a telegram. Instinctively, he knew the message the man was bringing...
...some monkeys. In The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (1975), a young man appears in a Nuremberg square in the 1820s, with no recollection of his past; the townspeople attempt to "civilize" Kaspar, treating him as their pet, their lab rat, their ignorant savior. In Heart of Glass (1976), a mountaintop savant predicts the fall of a small village's glass industry; panic and madness ensue. Herzog paints his pictures in colors as vivid as dream life and instructs his actors to proceed with the elegant gravity of silent-film stars. Aguirre, Kaspar and Heart of Glass are three solitary...
That future, in the eyes of Hong Kong's 5.5 million nervous residents, has never seemed more in need of clarification. From the luxurious mountaintop mansions of "the peak" to the factory floors of Kowloon, from the shimmering office towers of the business district to the wretched squatter camps near Aberdeen, the consuming topic of conversation nowadays is what exactly will happen to Hong Kong before July 1, 1997. That is the date when more than 90% of Hong Kong's land area, the 373-sq.-mi. New Territories, will revert to China under the terms...
...hours later, Begin landed on the mountaintop. I was pleased that his wife Aliza was scheduled to arrive in a few hours. The Begins always seemed very close, and I was sure Aliza would be as helpful to him during the coming days as Rosalynn would...