Imagine yourself living near miles of
cornfields with only two neighbors who owned one car between them.
I grew up on a dairy farm, and my dad always planted the outside rows of
the cornfield with sweet corn.
What UFO conspiracy movie would be complete without a scene of the heroes running through
a cornfield with helicopters chasing them?
He lives on a farm in the middle of a large
cornfield with his brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix) and his two young children, Morgan (Culkin) and Bo (Abigail Breslin).
That scene in
the cornfield with Reagan, the daughter, that scene could've been two minutes longer with the two of them.
His landscapes include: Cherry Tree (1888); The Old Mill (1888); The Harvest, Arles (1888); Bridge at Arles (1888); View of Arles with Irises (1888); Cypresses (1889);
Cornfield with Cypresses (1889); View of Arles (Flowering Orchards)(1889); The Olive Trees (1889); Starry Night (1889); The Olive Pickers (1889); Wheat Field with Crows (1890); Starry Night (1889).
Not exact matches
I spent whole summers
with a group of guys, chopping cockleburs and button weeds in the
cornfields and talking the way teenage boys talk when they're off by themselves.
We don't have any new - fangled Emergent churches out here in the
cornfields, so if you plan to attend church here and consider yourself in any way progressive, you will have to compromise and figure out how to love and learn from people you disagree
with.
Last month, CEH reached a legal agreement
with Cornfields Inc, a leading private label snack food maker, requiring the company to significantly reduce the levels of acrylamide in its products.
Less than two minutes into the period,
with the Hawkeyes backed up at their eight - yard line, Stanzi rolled right and lofted an intermediate - length pass to sophomore wideout Marvin McNutt, who beat a defender to the sideline and found the field in front of him as open as an Iowa
cornfield.
Once, before the Santa Ana Freeway cut through the orange groves and
cornfields and before Disneyland and subdivisions filled the road
with motorists, a rooster named Big Red strutted in front of the Skate Ranch.
I'd agree
with Mike
Cornfield and Lee Rainie's article in last Sunday's Post, though, that the most important effects of online video actually came from its amplification by the mainstream media.
[Update: Mike
Cornfield writes in to note that an expanded version of his and Lee Rainie's article, complete
with more predictions for the future, is available online at the Pew Research Center.]
I agree
with Mike
Cornfield and Sarah Lai Stirland that without the internet, it's very unlikely Barack Obama would be the Democratic nominee.
«It's not clear to me... that a town hall meeting in the
cornfields of Iowa has anything to do
with the quality of life of every day New Yorkers,» he said.
We are seeing a lot of this in the upper Midwest in wells, near
cornfields; a lot of them are polluted
with nitrate.
To get a more realistic read, he and his co-workers treated soil from a
cornfield run by the university
with either a solution of buckyballs, yielding a dose of one part per million in the soil, or
with dry buckyballs for a concentration of a thousand parts per million.
These, in a
cornfield in Selangor, Malaysia, are fitted
with electronic tweeters playing swiftlet calls to attract the birds.
They've been hampered by limited carbon dioxide measurements in
cornfields, by the fact that annual carbon losses are comparatively small and difficult to measure, and the lack of a proven model to estimate carbon dioxide emissions that could be coupled
with a geospatial analysis.
Climate change and a landscape in the United States covered
with lawns and
cornfields also make it more difficult for bees to find a healthy meal, she said.
Rather than planting all of the same crop in a large area (picture the typical
cornfield), commercial (and backyard) growers see improvement when they imitate the diversity found in the natural world, alternating rows
with a complementary crop.
In the U.S.,
cornfields are regularly sprayed
with pesticides, which turn food into stealthy carriers of endocrine disruptors.
Litchfield county is peppered
with rolling hills and
cornfields, and is precisely the kind of rural idyll you need to remedy the big city blues.
After a youth spent exploring the Midwestern landscape of
cornfields and suburban expanses, he left for Baltimore, Maryland, where he graduated
with a BFA in illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
It is important to remember those good old days when you were young and had no money and could still find amazing things to do
with a special person, even if it was just lying in the
cornfield watching the clouds for funny shapes.
You can still lie in the
cornfield if you want, or you can come up
with other «free» activities to do.
The story goes that when Alfred Hitchcock conceived the idea for «North by Northwest» he really just came up
with three action set - pieces — Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint hanging from the faces on Mount Rushmore, the cropduster chasing Grant through a
cornfield and the sequence that has bad guys pouring liquor down Grant's throat until he's too drunk to drive, then putting him behind the wheel of a car that is sent careening down a mountain.
I never found children to be scary; it looks forced
with the
cornfield, sickle and the «shushing» imagery.
They are sent back 30 - odd years to a specific location — a
cornfield, say — where the looper is waiting
with a loaded blunderbuss.
When he pops up in the
cornfield, inexplicably unhooded, young Joe locks eyes
with him and flinches.
The universe recognizes the noble quality of Jamie's yearning, however, and rewards her
with the safe respite of a soft crash into a nearby
cornfield, cutting a jagged line of collapsed cornstalk.
A few things are obvious, however: The 20 - year - old rookie possesses a wicked knuckle curveball, and being suddenly dropped into the
cornfields of Iowa to play
with a minor - league team has left Sugar seriously culture - shocked.
Taking place in a
cornfield somewhere in southern Germany, the film evokes Malick's work not only because of its heavy - handed philosophising dialogue but also because of its strained attempt to infuse its cinematography
with the very meaning that its dialogue about philosophy, including Being and Time, never achieves.
And there's enough drama to be had from a nail dangerously stuck out of stairs, a plunge into a grain silo, a night - time rat - run through a monster - infested
cornfield, a sudden basement flood that draws a creature to the sound of gushing water, and an encounter
with a mad old neighbour driven to the point when he just has to screw up his face and scream.
With all the high - speed chases and ear - shattering explosions, perhaps the most exciting and tense scene features two high - powered cars playing a game of cat and mouse while slowly rolling through a
cornfield.
The film drives home its cautionary message against childishness
with an increasing immaturity — it's the equivalent of burying a toddler up to the neck for throwing a tantrum, and though it will predictably (and fairly) be compared against The Hitcher and Duel, the most telling stolen moment in Joy Ride is a
cornfield intrigue that substitutes the evil crop duster from North by Northwest for a rumbling semi tractor - trailer that somehow locates its prey in the dead of night amongst concealing stalks.
You're introduced to the world
with absolutely no fanfare or contextual information, and must traverse through a
cornfield until you reach a farmhouse.
Tonally LOOPER can be cut directly down the middle: the first half's suburban setting — full of colour, violence and Paul Dano losing his shit — gives way to a second that focuses on Joe (Gordon - Levitt) as he runs from the authorities, and settles
with Sara (Blunt) and Cid (Gagnon) on a
cornfield.
Armed
with nothing like innovation or intelligence at the script level, Kim lards The Last Stand
with several inspired visual gags that culminate in a chase through a
cornfield and one frozen, bird's - eye shot that gifts the film
with a kind of wit it doesn't deserve.
Krasinski's assured and confident direction speedily sweeps us over these minor speed bumps
with skin - crawling jump - scares and showcase sequences, especially Marcus» flashlight - illuminated dash through nocturnal
cornfields (making corn stalks even scarier than in M. Night Shyalaman's «Signs») and a chilling fall into a silo loaded
with quicksand - like grain.
The film opens
with Graham finding his two young children in the middle of a
cornfield in the early morning hours — their two dogs led them there.
Through the lens of cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen (The Hunt), every inch of their Midwest farm is captured
with a honey - tinged sadness, painting portraits of deadly American badlands -
cornfields and forests hiding preying - mantis - looking mutants, who hunt solely via sound.
Living
with his two kids, Morgan and Bo (Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin, respectively), and his younger brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix) on a farm outside of Philadelphia, Graham's world is suddenly turned upside down when he discovers a crop circle in the middle of his
cornfield.
Through Craigslist.org, they found Britney Barber, a twenty - five - year - old aspiringcomedian who plays a cornucopia of characters, from the gyratingblonde in a
cornfield featured in Midwest's opening creditsto a ditzy, gum - snapping teen in love
with an older guy.
Tending to the
cornfields, working
with livestock, and participating in ceremonial traditions are part of what makes me a member of my community and shapes my value of giving back to community.
It's a dull drive
with nothing to see except
cornfields and flat, straight freeways, so comfort and convenience take precedence.
With a mix of icky brutality and stoic, deadpan humor, Hale welcomes readers to Friendship, Wisconsin, where homecoming queen Ruth has just been found dead in a
cornfield, stuffed like a scarecrow.
When Khrushchev reciprocates Nixon's visit, we ride along
with the press corps as «K» touches down in the Big Apple, rubs elbows and trades barbs
with Hollywood bigwigs, tramps through an Iowa
cornfield, and kisses president Eisenhower's grandchildren in their Pennsylvania farmhouse.
This bundle offers a great introduction to Blake Pierce's series
with over 140,000 words of reading.In BEFORE HE KILLS, a woman is found murdered in the
cornfields of Nebraska, strung up on a pole, the victim of a deranged killer.
A former systems analyst, she gave up her nerdy code - writing skills to care for her family (including a son
with special needs), and currently lives among the vast stretches of
cornfields in Illinois.