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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...
...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...
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...
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...