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...Dickey's most recent poems that teeters on this brink is called "Falling." An airline stewardess sucked from an aircraft falls to her death in a Kansas cornfield. On the way down...
...volunteered to drive from Quang Ngai City four miles to a coastal hamlet to warn U.S. and Vietnamese co-workers that Viet Cong had attacked the city and were believed still to be lurking in the area. On the way back, the Jeep was ambushed. Taking cover in a cornfield, Owen and his companions were bombarded by a Viet Cong mortar barrage. One round exploded near Owen. Stunned, he staggered to his feet and was fatally shot through the heart. Dee Owen would have been 22 next February...
Disney always maintained that he made films not for children but for "honest adults." He was pleased when the enormously successful Disneyland was dubbed "Disney's Golden Cornfield," and said defiantly, "We're selling corn. And I like corn." Though most of his later "real-life" nature movies-The Living Desert, Beaver Valley, Water Birds-were imaginative documentary films, some critics protested that he spoiled them with gimmicks. And though historical pictures like Davey Crockett were also big hits, Disney was again criticized for sugar-coating his history...
...ones he is after. To him, there are no holds barred when he is digging. He once hounded a locked-door session of a board of supervisors in his home state of Iowa by climbing onto the second-story ledge of the courthouse and later wriggling through a cornfield to eavesdrop on his prey in a farmhouse; they felt so harassed that they finally abandoned closed meetings...
...only a temporary aberration in the British character, which is basically less inhibited than most. London today is in many ways like the cheerful, violent, lusty town of William Shakespeare, one of whose happiest songs is about "a lover and his lass, that o'er the green cornfield did pass." It is no coincidence that critics describe London's vibrant theater as being in the midst of a second Elizabethan era, that one number on the Rolling Stones' newest LP is a mock-Elizabethan ballad with a harpsichord and dulcimer for accompaniment, or that Italian Novelist Alberto...