Word: hayloft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which, when done right, is a dish to tempt a Paul Bocuse. A hand pump still stands proudly on a cistern. The rope hammock strung between the phi oak and the sugar maple is ragged but enduring, curving invitingly in the dusk. Hollyhocks fringe the small barn with the hayloft and the split door. The barn had been built for a new horse and buggy when Henry Ford was still considered a crank...
...there are 80, plus more than 100 houses employing non-union actors. (At non-Equity theaters, the performers often earn only tips by doubling as waiters and waitresses; the nuns' chorus from The Sound of Music, for example, may serve drinks at intermission.) For owners, the Hayloft in Manassas, Va., grosses $1.5 million a year, and the Firehouse in Omaha takes in $16,000 weekly-$9,000 of which is profit. Says Actors' Equity President Theodore Bikel: "Dinner theaters are the only success story in the theater today...
...farmer, he was raised in Martinsville, a town whose chief distinction, as noted in Ripley's Believe It or Not, was that its 5,200 inhabitants built a basketball fieldhouse that seated 5,520. He began with a rag ball and the proverbial peach basket nailed to the hayloft. He was an honor student and a three-time All-America at Purdue, where he financed his way by waiting on tables and taping the ankles of football players for 350 an hour. He is remembered as the "India Rubber Man," a 5-ft. 10-in., razzle-dazzle guard whose...
...occurs on a sunny afternoon while life is proceeding apace around you. The twins continue to play in the barn and plan their magic show while around them person after person dies in horrible circumstances due to the actions of the "bad" twin. Their insufferable cousin, jumping in the hayloft, lands on a carefully placed pitchfork. Their invalid mother is pushed down the stairs in the middle of the night when no one but them is there is to see. By day they are such charming creatures, uninterested by anything except their childish games, that an external spirit of evil...
...kind lady lives here," while the canine image warns of a "vicious dog here." Other signs are a cross ("religious talk gets free meal"), two intersecting circles ("police here frown on hobos"), two wavy lines supported by a pillar and sheltering a small circle ("you can sleep in hayloft") and an indescribable squiggle that translates "food here if you work...