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When we took walks to the Arnold Arboretum, their imaginary guns zinged electronically, echoing Star Wars. Inside I saw a lanky boy with puckered lips proudly enter a practice room, touting a city-owned trombone. Once a group of five little boys and I spent an afternoon discovering a cornfield--in view of the Boston skyline--plucking off dry cobs and scattering the kernels...
...turns out to be Mason's agent (although ultimately a double agent) and the persecution continues. Scary enough. But Hitchcock invests even more genius in a few intricately-constructed and flawlessly-carried-out chase scenes: the escape from the rare antique auction, the low-flying cropduster in the cornfield bit, and the film's finale, a rush from death across the carved faces on Mount Rushmore. Hitchcock himself jaunts onto the screen in the opening minutes, his belly pulling up to and bouncing off the closing door of a bus. He knew what a brilliant film he had constructed...
...Brookline is a psych-out course," he explained. "I think that people tended to get discouraged and when that happens you tend to balloon. The rough is as high as a cornfield. If you miss the green a little bit it's like your ball...
Gilbert went outside and tried hitchhiking to Dieppe, but he could not get a ride. Then he started running drunkenly through a cornfield. Philippe ran after him. In a sudden onrush of pity, Philippe urged the bedraggled Gilbert to come and spend the night in his room. Gilbert replied with a storm of curses...
Anthony Caro, at the MFA through May. Using scraps of steel--pieces of pipe, ends of sheet-metal, bits of gridding--Caro engenders his own brilliant constructions. His sculptures render natural forms in vividly painted metal: "Prairie," for example, folds and undulates; a cornfield--but in yellow steel. The patterns of "Orangerie" belie the stasis of the dusky orange metal, seeming to move like the shadows of leaves. Caro's efforts to capture the nature of water produce some of his most interesting work: "the Deluge" transfixes waves and spray, and "Cool Deck" slides and shimmers, a silvery stream. "Early...