I grew up on a dairy farm, and my dad always planted the outside rows
of the cornfield with sweet corn.
Imagine yourself living near miles
of cornfields with only two neighbors who owned one car between them.
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.
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.]
«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.
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.
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.
What UFO conspiracy movie would be complete without a scene
of the heroes running through a
cornfield with helicopters chasing them?
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
That scene in the
cornfield with Reagan, the daughter, that scene could've been two minutes longer
with the two
of them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maize starts
with you, the protagonist, dropped in the middle
of a
cornfield, and you soon come across a mysterious door that needs three items to be opened.
The Pinball FX2 VR version features every bit
of film - adapting gameplay that resonated so well
with critics and fans alike, from E.T. collecting candy in a
cornfield to Marty McFly showcasing his skills at arcade shooting and players braving the open waters in a shark cage for an exciting multi-ball mode.»
Alan Reynolds, who has died aged 88, was a singular post-war British artist whose early landscapes
of Suffolk and Kent — works peppered
with teasels, oast houses, hop gardens, orchards, copses and
cornfields — mutated into formally abstract compositions.
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).
How did the community
of that place react, watching an American artist
with his small crew buying huge amounts
of industrial materials, or finding you eating in the middle
of a
cornfield?
If your twelve - year - old tries to set a leaf on fire
with a magnifying glass and accidentally burns down a
cornfield as a result, your liability coverage is there for you because a child
of that age is presumed not to be aware that setting one thing on fire in the middle
of a field
of flammable corn stalks is likely to set the whole field afire.