Word: clapboarded
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...this rather trite dichotomy does give scope for the film's most redeeming quality: the cinematography. Director of photography Jonathan Cornick captures straight-laced Puritanism in idyllic shots awash with scullers, clapboard and steeples straight from an Eakins canvas. Dramatic cliffs and dense forests redolent of Bierstadt represent America's noble savagery. Happily, such arresting backdrops tend to distract the audience from the action...
...anyone who has lived in a small town can attest, social intimacy comes at the price of privacy: everybody knows your business. And that's true in spades when next-door neighbors live not in Norman Rockwell clapboard homes but in thatched huts...
Bennington College has long been known for its artsy, innovative ways. Martha Graham pioneered modern dance by leading her students twirling across Bennington's enormous, grasy common. Theodore Roethke, W.H. Auden and Bernard Malamud cultivated their literacy talents among Bennington's white clapboard dorms with green shutters, according to the New York Times Magazine. Buckminister Fuller build one of his first geodesic domes there...
...headlines during the historic 1988 Reagan-Gorbachev summit when Gorbachev sent a warning that the President not see the family. But after the Ziemans were once again denied emigration rights, Reagan intervened, and they were at last granted permission to leave the U.S.S.R. They moved to a tiny white clapboard house in Waltham, Massachusetts, where they promptly became red-white-and-blue American suburbanites. Yuri got a job as a computer programmer; Tanya taught English and lectured on Russian life; and Vera, an accomplished pianist, was accepted with a full scholarship to Milton Academy. On their dining-room wall they...
...economic dead end. Only a handful of natives hold jobs at the post office, school and nursing station. There is no industry except the impatient wait for welfare checks, ranging from $237 to $316 a month per family. As many as 20 people live crammed into a single unpainted clapboard dwelling. None of the 67 houses administered by the local Innu Council have running water or sewerage. Uncollected garbage is strewn along rutted snowmobile paths that serve as de facto streets eight months of the year...