Word: farms
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...objected, then reconsidered. "But I was interpretive in my painting, just as Rudi is interpretive in his dance." Wyeth's current project: illustrations for a children's book that is being written by his mother Betsy and takes place on the often-painted family farm at Chadds Ford...
...suite of seven large luminous paintings (33¾ in. by 12½ in.) that spellbind without the use of words. Though Müller is Swiss, his story, unfortunately, is universal: the gradual erosion of a natural setting by urban sprawl. Starting in the spring of 1953, with barefoot farm children in a burgeoning countryside, Artist Müller takes characters and acreage through the incursions of a railroad, the depredations of bulldozer, drill and crane, and, ultimately, in the fall of 1972, to those hallmarks of Western civilization, the discount store and the parking meter. Yet Müller...
...amount of detail that the President demands before reaching an economic decision has already become Washington legend. Aides tell stories of Carter correcting the addition of tables in the Statistical Annex, or reviewing every figure on pages dealing with farm-price supports. But in his discussions with advisers, no overall presidential economic philosophy ever emerges. Says Lawrence Klein, Carter's chief economic adviser during the campaign: "His economics are totally non-doctrine. The President's agribusiness experience in Georgia was the most important factor in developing his economic thinking...
Hargrave, a Long Island vineyard that only five years ago was a 66-acre potato farm, was founded by Alex Hargrave, 31, who holds a Harvard M.A. in Chinese studies, with the help of his wife Louisa, who studied wine chemistry, and his brother Charles. The Hargraves plant only vinifera, no hybrids. Remarked Alex: "If you can grow avocados, why grow brussels sprouts?" In spite of the Hargraves' recently planted vines and inexperience, their Sauvignon blanc was given top rating among New York wines tasted recently by Wine Author Alexis Bespaloff (The Fireside Book of Wine) and Vintage Magazine...
...year. Says Owner Archie Smith: "We're selling almost as quickly as we can get it out." Nearby Piedmont is the state's first commercial vinifera winery, and expects to double its capacity over the next two years. Both Meredyth and Piedmont used to be cattle farms. Says Piedmont's manager, Jim Cockrell, 35, who over the past four years oversaw the transition from cattle farm to vineyard: "It sure beats milking cows twice...