Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pinpoint experiences her books are "about" or events that "affected" them, offering instead the anecdote of a farmer neighbor whose barn caught fire several years ago. The entire herd of cattle was brought out unharmed, suffering no visible effects; five months later, though, all the cows miscarried. Rather than assess and second-guess her own delayed shock values. Atwood states her preference for filling the months between novels--when the emotional and creative cycles don't overlap--with writing T.V. docudramas and adaptations, her mental equivalent of a jog around the block...
...once familiar and novel, the chapel was built for wayfarers rather than a resident congregation. No larger than a tall barn, it stands at the bend of a wooded trail, high in the Ozark Mountains. An almost transparent structure of mostly timber and glass, it seems to be one with the surrounding woods and rocks. The chapel's architect, E. Fay Jones of Fayetteville, Ark., who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, describes it as a kind of reversal of gothic cathedral architecture. The trusses inside the structure form a repetitive, rhythmic lattice pattern as evocative as a Bach fugue...
...risk," says Tom O'Brian, a New York banker involved in the fair's private financing. "I see nothing wrong with a return commensurate with that risk." As for Butcher, he is nonchalant about his role. "Every project," he says, "needs a shepherd." By staging a "super barn burner" of a World's Fair, he claims, Knoxville "got 30 years of growth in five years...
...them, the worker, has brought his daughter (Marta Zoffoli), a child of about eight, with him. She will share a bedroom with the old man, hear his explanation of why a countryman needs no alarm clock, play sensuously in the grain stored in the barn and, while her father and uncles are at the funeral, find a symbolic egg and present it to her grandfather. She alone among the visitors will cry for the dead woman and elicit answering tears from her grandfather. Thus do the innocence of childhood and the simplifying wisdom of age find common ground, and strike...
...rest of the story is too laughable to relate here, but you should know that Morgan Fairchild, who shoots from the hip Chuck Connor-style, can't hit the side of a house with a barn door. And for Derek, the ending is not a happy...