Word: mountaintop
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...being bossed, for Biltz not only keeps out of print, but approves "safe" candidates of either party and seldom minds which wins. For another, even Norman Biltz's critics find him hard to resist, particularly if he woos them, amid squads of millionaires, at one of his mountaintop barbecues...
Strange Deception (Excelsa Films; Casino Film Exchange) opens with a striking sequence: a vast, uninterrupted aerial shot as the camera, slowly swooping down for several miles over the bare, cradling hills of Tuscany, finally comes to rest on the figures of two men on a mountaintop...
...University; and he is working on a full-scale model of a statue as a gift for the people of his homeland, honoring Montenegro's 19th century poet and prince-bishop, Petar Njegos. Mestrovic's plans call for a pensive figure in grey granite above Njegos' mountaintop grave; there will be a chapel, too, and Mestrovic has already sent over the designs for approval...
...Mountain Climber Marcus Broennimann and his conquest of formidable Salcantay (TIME, July 28). Loayza, in Lima, had an assistant stationed closer to the scene at Cuzco, two hours from Lima by plane. Loayza was trying to get a picture which another mountain climber had taken of Broennimann on the mountaintop. Loayza tried to phone Cuzco. waited six hours to get a call through. Then his assistant had to travel 60 miles along mountain roads to a farm where Broennimann was resting with injuries he suffered during his climb. The mountain climber was reluctant to give up his pictures...
Dedicated Sentinel. Novelist Buzzati's fortress, which symbolizes the abode of brave souls, stands on a lonely mountaintop. It commands a view of a misty steppe to the north, from where it may at any moment be attacked. In Dostoevsky's day the invaders were known as "Nihilists" ; today, Buzzati calls them "Tartars." But their name is unimportant; what matters is that they represent the forces of spiritual despair and destruction...