Word: mountaintop
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...believes that only the people who are in the church can hear the sermon. "I feel that I'm doing God's work," he said last week, "but just because it's God's work I don't have to be on a mountaintop. You get the respect you deserve, and you don't get any more for sitting on a pedestal...
...Kirk Douglas is a slob and an architect at work on a mountaintop house that will one day be occupied by a bachelor novelist (glibly played by Ernie Kovacs) and his mistress of the moment. Douglas has a successful marriage and one little boy, over whose head he is warned by his attractive wife (Barbara Rush) that "martinis don't mix with s-e-x." "What's s-e-x?" inquires the youth. "Is it like Santa Claus?" Daddy, at any rate, is full of the Old Nick. Symbols clank as Douglas and Novak meet at a roadside...
Closeup View. But it was at Camp David, the presidential retreat on a Maryland mountaintop, that Khrushchev's visit came into focus with its greatest meaning to 1959. At Camp David, under a canopy of oak leaves, the President of the U.S. and the Premier of the U.S.S.R. walked and talked along winding gravel paths, lived together for three days in Ike's grey, batten-board Aspen Lodge...
Since peace returned to Lebanon, Moghabghab has never traveled alone in the mountain regions, always packed a gun. But last week was a special occasion. As the President's motorcade started up the steep final hill to his mountaintop palace, Moghabghab's car, just behind it, rounded the bend. Among the hundreds of Druses lining the road, shouting and cheering, someone recognized their old enemy. Within seconds, Moghabghab's car was surrounded. His driver leaped out, ran off to attract the attention of General Adel Chehab, commander in chief of the army, who was just...
...beauty of its vivid-hued cliffs and luminous Blue Grotto, Italy's fabled Bay of Naples island of Capri owes its reputation less to its scenery than to two of its former inhabitants. One was the Emperor Tiberius, who retired some 1,900 years ago to a mountaintop villa from which, records Suetonius, "condemned persons, after long and exquisite tortures, used to be hurled, on his orders and in his presence, into the sea." The other was British Author Norman Douglas, whose bestselling South Wind (1917) painted a thinly disguised picture of Capri as a haunt of elegant wickedness...