Word: mountaintops
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...death King acknowledged that he had been "to the mountaintop" and had seen "the promised land." As he predicted that night, he did not get there with us, nor have we, as a nation arrived there either. The present confirms this and illustrates how dangerous it is to ignore the past...
That is what Morris' short fiction consistently delivers. For every sad event there is a countervailing and arresting image: of swallows on a Spanish mountaintop ("Their flight on the sky was like fine scratches on film"); of a vista in Boise, Idaho ("My aunt's couch faced the door, which stood open, the view given a sepia tone by the rusted screen"). The author offers glimpses of strange lives and then, with wisdom and art, makes them clear and permanent...
Reagan is currently vacationing on his mountaintop ranch in Southern California. (See related story, page...
...glacier is a river of ice fed by mountaintop snowfall. When the ice becomes thick and heavy enough, it starts to flow like an extremely viscous fluid, its uphill section always advancing, its end, or terminus, moving forward or back, depending on factors like how fast the terminus melts or breaks off into the sea. Although glaciologists can describe a glacier's movements and predict its effects, they cannot explain why the Hubbard Glacier or any of the 15 or so smaller frozen masses that are also surging in the Yakutat area -- albeit harmlessly -- began to speed up, while others...
Schwarzenegger, 38, plays a commando whose career has been saving the U.S. and its friends from all sorts of sinister types. Retiring to a mountaintop in California, he hopes to spend the rest of his days in peaceful pursuits, like raising his motherless daughter. But bad guys being bad guys, they want revenge. They kidnap his child and threaten to kill her unless he assassinates the President of a fictional country in Central America. The rest of the film is devoted to Schwarzenegger's pursuit of his enemies. He shoots them, drops them off cliffs, slits their throats, chops...