Word: wheatfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pilgrims making the journey last week found the presence of Van Gogh evoked by a larger-than-life (10½ ft., 880 Ibs.) bronze statue that is in many ways as strange as the man it commemorates. Staring toward the rolling wheatfield that was the subject of Vincent's last canvas is a figure with peasant hat and deep-set eyes, the severed left ear barely suggested, paintbox and easel slung on his back. The work of Russian-born Sculptor Ossip Zadkine, it stands a few paces from the small walled cemetery where Van Gogh lies buried beside...
Parrish (Warner) is the celluloid name for Troy (Surfside 6) Donahue, who has a wheatfield of golden hair, ripply pectoral muscles and a pair of sapphire-tinted eyes -in a word, a dreamboat who by his own tally is "No. 1 on the fan mail list at the studio and No. 2 or 3 in all of Hollywood right now." Troy plays the part, as the ads put it, of an "intruder in Connecticut's Million-Dollar Mile," which sounds like moneyed exurbia and turns out to be rich tobacco country in the Connecticut River Valley...
...mowed, 15-acre wheatfield 1½ miles north of Flora, Ill. stood 1,374 glistening new white Fords, Falcons and Thunderbirds, 115 new trucks and one bright red-and-white fire engine. At exactly 10:23 one morning last week Flora residents sprinted across the stubble in a Midwestern version of the Le Mans start, hopped into the new cars, and amid a swirl of dust drove them to their homes...