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Farmers, who are not benefiting from the higher consumer prices, are increasingly frustrated and angry. To advertise his plight, Gary Seidenberger, 42, of St. Lawrence, Texas, used a harvesting machine to carve a series of pathways through his wheatfield that formed the shapes of letters. The field then contained the giant message FARMING STINKS!, which became a favorite view of commercial airline pilots and passengers...
...suspected al-Qaeda operative would be traveling to Mardan disguised as a burqa-clad woman. Because any plainclothesmen seen grabbing a woman would attract a hostile mob, the commandos had donned female garb and accosted the suspect as his motorcycle crossed a graveyard. When the fugitive fled through a wheatfield, the commandos shed their burqas and flip-flops and gave chase, eventually cornering him in a house a mile away. After police tossed in tear gas, the suspect, clutching his cell phone, surrendered without a fight...
...started with Vincent Van Gogh. When Vincent Polakovic was a 10-year-old boy in Poprad, north Slovakia, he saw a reproduction of Van Gogh's Wheatfield with Crows at a friend's house, and fell in love. "I had no idea such art existed," he says. "We didn't have any pictures at home." That glimpse began a journey that has culminated in the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, a modern art gallery in the unlikely setting of an artificial peninsula jutting into the Danube's Gabc?kovo reservoir, some 15 km south of Bratislava. After teaching himself art history...
...cousins Charles-François Daubigny and Millet. This makes for a wonderful triple play here, cloud-filled skies sweeping over broad plains painted by three generations: Ruisdael's pastoral View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, Georges Michel's barren and stormy Three Windmills and Van Gogh's powerhouse Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, a swath of chartreuse and emerald green beneath a bolt of cobalt and pale blue. Millet was second only to Rembrandt in Van Gogh's pantheon, and he copied the older artist's works throughout his short life, working from prints or from memory, especially the iconic figure...
...characterizes most lives. On the first Earth Day of the new century (April 22), this is where we are--running hard to catch up with our heady commercial present and our future in cyberspace and at the same time capable of being called back, at the drop of a wheatfield, to a life that connects us with all life...