Word: cornfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is one of the ten most beautiful women in America doing in the middle of a Louisiana cornfield? Patience, all will be explained. Actress Lisa Bonet is best known as the spunky, spaniel-eyed daughter Denise on The Cosby Show. But this summer Bonet, 18, wanted a change of image. So she made Angel Heart, with Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro. In the movie, due for release next March, she plays a bayou-country fieldworker who has an infant son -- and incidentally is a voodoo priestess. "Not a conventional teenager," allows Bonet, who drew on her Creole roots...
...aggressive mixture of historic motifs with raw industrialism. The slant-sided, flat-roofed entrance jutting into the street vaguely resembles the Lion Gate at Mycenae, but it is built of glass and metal and ! guarded by exhaust pipes with garishly painted air vents. Comments Harvard Graduate Student Michael Cornfield: "The entrance looks like Superman's Fortress of Solitude." Inside, a steep, monumental staircase features antique friezes on one wall, while the opposite side is adorned with massive tubular brass railings...
...Harvard men's rugby club copped the Northeast Regional title yesterday in Cornfield. N.J., defeating a Boston University club that had beaten the Crimson for the same title last fall...
...Salvadoran Army Colonel Julio César Yánez López stared with satisfaction at the thin plumes of smoke coiling across the scrubby landscape below. "We're fighting terrorists, not guerrillas with a noble cause," he announced as the chopper settled to earth alongside a cornfield crackling with flames. "We're going to integrate Usulután back into the economic life of this country...
...wonder that, in a painter with so pronounced a taste for the specific, there was a constant argument between stereotypes and things seen. Constable loved his masters: Claude Lorrain, Ruisdael, Gaspard Poussin. Some of his most delectable paintings, such as The Cornfield, 1826, rely on the Claudean use of dark repoussoir trees framing a view of bright space at the center, and this can make them too charming to a modern eye. Constable himself remarked that The Cornfield "has certainly got a little more eyesalve than I usually condescend to give." But the great fact of nature, as Benjamin West...