Word: wheatfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...married, and that made me feel mortal." Most groundlings trace the beginning of their phobia to an especially hairy flight. Jackie Gleason swore off flying in the 1940s when the plane on which he was a California-to-New York passenger lost two engines and landed in a Midwest wheatfield. Old Trouper Jimmy Durante also dates his dislike of flying to "the worst flight ever" some 20 years ago. He still flies, because "I gotta. But when it gets choppy, I say, 'Oh, my God,' and hold to whoever is sitting nearest." Such people get little satisfaction from...
...Large Billiard Table" color and pattern tie the composition together, while the changing point of view from two to three dimensionality pulls it apart. For all the brilliance of these paintings, it is "Wheatfield"--a small work compared to the others--which is the most eccentric, and the most subtle and fascinating in its daring use of materials and sophisticated intentions...
...WHEATFIELD, by Robert Laxalt. This spare, original novel about a man who tames snakes and alarms the villagers by his powers becomes an allegory of man's ways of confronting dread...
...WHEATFIELD, by Robert Laxalt. This spare, original novel about a man who tames snakes and alarms the villagers by his powers becomes an allegory of man's ways of confronting dread...
...Gettysburg there is the statue of a priest standing on a rock, arm raised in benediction, forever giving absolution to the men of the Irish Brigade as they file in ghostly parade towards the Wheatfield and Devil's Den. This priest was Father William Corby...