Word: orchardes
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...that no one around here can identify the kind of apples they bear - not especially apple-shaped, but resembling ancient gnomes, or a leprechaun's collection of shrunken heads. A meager harvest. The deer eat them, but we do not. We're hoping to bring the orchard back. We pruned one tree last year so radically that it was more stump than tree, but since then it has managed an irrepressible little renaissance, firing fresh shoots up out of its own ruins...
...sure that anyone ever does. Car dealers dress up in white powdered wigs to hawk Japanese cars on local TV. What historical commentary there is may have George Washington as slave-owner, and Abe Lincoln as racist. American history seems to have deteriorated in the way that our orchard has, and what we have is not a harvest of heroes, but of shrunken heads. On the other hand, Americans spent $30 million over the weekend to see a movie about Hannibal Lecter eating people...
...thought, well that's pretty lame. I think about sex all the time, and while I've never destroyed an orchard there have been a couple of times I thought about knocking down my neighbor's ugly apple tree. It just rubbed me the wrong...
...Orchard said while there are "a number of highly qualified candidates under consideration," he plans to stay with the ART and does not feel he is qualified to assume Brustein's post...
...Like a bad penny I'll be around for a while," Orchard writes in an e-mail message. "But I'm not an artist, I'm a producer. The artistic director should be an artist...