Word: mazes
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...what did he paint during those final years? One last great painting, of a terminally bored barmaid surrounded by a maze of mirror reflections, A Bar at the Folies Bergere. And flowers: many of them exquisite little watercolors (a briar rose, a snail on a leaf) done with rapid, sketchy delicacy, with notes to their recipients, mainly his women friends, written on the same page. Nothing indicates how he was suffering. His love of life and of style was too strong. In their sweet, private brevity, these tiny notes combining script and image are among the most "Japanese" images...
Your item on our family corn maze [TREND ALERT, March 5] incorrectly stated that we created the maze to "save the family farm." I am proud to say that it didn't need "saving," owing to the fact that for the past 50 years my parents and grandparents have, through wise management and hard work, been able to create and maintain a productive working dairy farm. Our decision to create the Great Vermont Corn Maze was aimed at getting me and my husband back onto the farm and having our kids live closer to their grandparents. We hope that...
Michael and Dayna Boudreau's farm in Danville, Vt., was failing. But rather than move to the city, they found a new livelihood by helping people get lost: they turned their cornfield into a maze. Now the attraction is earning almost as much money as their 200-cow dairy business once did. Cornfield mazes like theirs are cropping up everywhere. In North Carolina there's a Haunted Cornfield maze; in Camarillo, Calif., the Amazing Maize Maze. There are cowboy mazes in Colorado, crawfish mazes in Louisiana and Halloween mazes in almost every state. With an average admission cost...
Brett Herbst designed his first cornfield maze in 1996 in American Fork, Utah. It drew 18,000 people in its first three weeks. Now he designs mazes around the country for about $30,000 apiece. "I've got orders for 100 this year alone," he says. He devises the pattern for a five- or six-acre maze on a computer, plants corn that grows more than 6 ft. tall, then uses a herbicide to form the twists and turns of the design. Weather permitting, of course. A bad season can thwart plans and turn the maze into a bust...
...simple. At times like these distance, and not direction, is my downfall. I find it nearly impossible to walk purposely past telescoping rows of books, leaving them all untouched, unread, unopened. (Glimpses of Portuguese periodicals, Byzantine manuscripts, journals of learned societies and "Iron Maze: Western Intelligence v. the Bolsheviks...