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VIII. Problems. Unfortunately, many romance novel covers reveal an artist's lack of skill. Eden, by Cordia Byers, shows a couple lying in a barn full of hay. But what exactly is the woman leaning on? It's unclear what is supporting her back, though apparently, from the position of her legs, she is leaning on something; perhaps a bale...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Understanding the Romance Novel | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...characters utilize a magnificent set designed by Peter Rosenbaum. The wooden barn, complete with a rickety fan and potbelly stove, is larger than life--just as the audience would expect in a Miller play. Likewise, the Jaguar that David repairs is gorgeous...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: The Show That Needs No Luck | 11/15/1991 | See Source »

...stroke of genius appears in the second act, after David has become enormously successful. Rosenbaum makes David's house a skeletal frame through which the audience can see the dilapidated barn. Superimposing the skeletal house on the barn prevents the audience from forgetting David's humble origins, just as David himself cannot...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: The Show That Needs No Luck | 11/15/1991 | See Source »

...Velveteen Rabbit. They managed to persuade Meryl Streep -- the "friend of a friend" -- to read the narration. The tape won a passel of awards and set Rabbit Ears hopping. In the past year the staff has grown from four to 18, straining the capacity of the two-story barn-wood building in Westport, Conn., that serves as a homey headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Back Storytelling | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...Lazy 8 ranch outside Dillon, Mont., a handful of tired cowboys shuffle into the calving barn for lunch. Troy Seilbach hangs up his spurs. Charlie Carpenter opens a thermos of coffee, and Blue, a dirty mixed-breed dog with a heavy pant, positions himself for a fallen crumb from one of the cowboys' Baggies-wrapped sandwiches. Emblazoned on the lunchroom's white wall is a hastily drawn map of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dillon, Montana The Rising Sun Meets the Big Sky | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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