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Word: cornfield (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World Series, but the farmer idolizes him and his Black Sox teammates for their innocence! So with the help of his trusting wife (Amy Madigan) and a crusty black author (James Earl Jones) who doesn't mind that all the old major-leaguers were white, he plows down his cornfield to erect a ball park and populate it with phantoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Don't Run: One Hit, One Error | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Despite a lovely cameo turn by Burt Lancaster, Field of Dreams is the male weepie at its wussiest. There is poetry in baseball, sure, but it is not shaggy doggerel of the Joyce Kilmer stripe: "I think that I shall ne'er remark/ A cornfield green as Fenway Park." It comes in the concrete poetry of a Bill James statistical analysis, or in the sprung rhythm of a Roger Angell paragraph. Or in the flight of a ball from the pitcher's hand toward the catcher's glove, with a million delicious options at stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Don't Run: One Hit, One Error | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Remember Buddy Ebsen as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz? Of course not. And Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow? Of course. But the Scarecrow dancing crazily off fences, being bowled over by a pumpkin and sailing high in the air over the cornfield? Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Archaeology by Laser Light | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...Malard sat at his small kitchen table, covered with a blue plastic cloth, and with strong, thick fingers stroked the stubble on his chin. His black hair was cropped to its roots, his glasses coated at the edges with the grit from a morning of tilling in his stunted cornfield, which hugs a bluff above the Missouri River between Bismarck and Cannon Ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Dakota: The Big Dry | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

Back at the stove, Fussell provides wise and workable recipes for items as various as cornfield peas and coconut rice, Owendaw hominy bread, chocolate crunch cookies and sweet and sour Christmas fish. And she provides enough lore to divert the amateur; if history is your dish, this is your book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I Cook, Therefore I Am | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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