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...problems are uniquely rural, so are the payoffs. Country Journal's eight-member editorial staff takes lunch breaks on cross-country skis or picnics in an old gazebo on a pond behind the office. Blair gazes out of his office window at photogenic Mt. Wantastiguet. And Ketchum's family has become a working advertisement for the magazine's editorial pitch of self-sufficiency: they spend spare hours milking goats, making maple syrup and, of course, delivering the occasional calf...
High school principals, as a rule, seem fond of imparting to their college-bound seniors the wisdom that although they are now big fish in the little pond of Hometown High, they soon will find themselves little fish in the big ponds of the college campuses of their choice--faced with the excitement and danger of a new world...
...shot should be dead straight-the hardest kind of golf shot to hit. But it's the second shot that's the real tester here, 185-200 yds. if the pin is placed on the back edge of the green or to the left near the pond. But forget the pin placement and always -I mean always-hit to the right side of the green. If you hit to the left and miss, you're in the pond and have an automatic...
...Seiberling points out in her excellent catalogue essay, Monet both cultivated and violated the myth of impressionism. From the garden scenes at Argenteuil in the 1870s, through the cliffs and seascapes of Étretat and BelleIsle in the 1880s to the blue watery cathedrals he made from his lily pond at Giverny, Monet constantly reworked his paintings in the studio. "Whether my cathedrals, my Londons and other paintings were made from nature or not is nobody's business and is not important," he wrote to his dealer...
Dark Mood. The movie does not state this message directly. Instead, it sifts through a succession of exquisitely made thrill sequences. Early on, the mood is farcical: Waldo loosening the wheels of a rival barnstormer so that he must crash-land in a pond; Waldo disastrously trying to perfect the crowd pleasing trick of transferring from moving car to low-flying plane by means of a suspended rope ladder...