Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing that hasn't changed at Princeton's arena since last year is the air temperature. Kudos to Baker Rink for being the coldest barn in the ECAC. Not only was the ice frozen solid, but so were the spectators...
...HAYSTACK, by Bonnie and Arthur Geisert (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), is a prize: a fascinating, beautifully drawn progression of Midwestern farmscapes showing the yearly building and slow consumption of an enormous, barn-sized haystack. Hay in a big field is cut with a tractor and sickle bar, then raked into windrows and stacked with a hydraulic lift and pitchforks. The great hay pile then serves as both food and shelter, first for cattle, then for pigs, through the long winter. There's no preaching, but important lessons are learned about work and weather, and how life might seem in the vast...
Every July, Ptashne plays at the Yellow Barn Festival, a music festival in Boston sponsored by the New England Music Conservatory. Ptashne says he studies at the Conservatory and tries to practice at least two hours...
Hughes generally begins work at 5 a.m., climbing to a second-floor office in a barn at his Long Island, New York, home. When he needs a break, he likes to go downstairs to his carpentry shop, where he builds furniture. "I find the action of hand-planing extremely soothing," he says. "It zoids you out." After lunch he takes a long nap, a ritual he began in 1964 following a trip to Italy. "God help anybody who tries to reach me between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," he laughs...
...Real World -- was a hip complement to the channel's usual diet of music videos. Now in its fourth season, the documentary series follows the lives of six or seven carefully chosen young strangers, brought together to live for several months in a home seemingly decorated from a Pottery Barn catalog. The cast members and locales change each year, but the formula doesn't. The producers assemble distinctive and contrasting personalities -- the current season, set in London, pits Neil, a bookish, anti-American Brit, against Mike, a McDonald's-loving Missouri jock -- and then wait for the inevitable clashes...