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...still there were none of the legendary 100 degrees days that pound crops at crucial moments of development. By August, Blake Hurst, nearby in Missouri, was beginning to be a believer. The family decided to cut some green corn for silage. The stalks and ears of corn were so thick and heavy that the 15-ton John Deere combine clogged up and lurched to a halt time and time again...
...about this year's squad is wait and see. If the new guys do well, then Brown should be right in the thick of things at the end of the season...
Farndon's oils evoke the same, mildly pleasant feelings, soothing and persuading viewers to luxuriate in his images of the ideal moment. Rarely does his subject venture beyond a ship yard or a wharf, a sun-drenched path or a perfectly motionless pond. Thick paint and broad strokes complete his portrayal of utter screnity through the heaviness and fixity of the surface texture of his canvases. Figures are rendered almost motionless, defined only by a few cursory passes of his brush, while those figures standing on a path or in a park as if on a stroll end up pasted...
...meantime, parents want better schools now. And in spite of the obstacles, they are organizing charter schools in droves and flocking to what few exist. Principal David Lehman of West Michigan Academy of Environmental Science, near Grand Rapids, has a sheaf of applications several inches thick for the year 1997, though his school has no track record. This summer he got a letter from Amy and Ron Larva of Grand Rapids. Their child was not yet born, they wrote, but they wanted to reserve a kindergarten spot for the year...
...goes further over the top with every line, straining in his wheelchair to extract himself from the death grip of his own right hand, a powerful character actor in its own right. This is the classic Sellers--black leather glover a demonic twinkle in his eye, and a thick German accent that can't help rolling over the word "slaughter" with special relish...