Word: barnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casual visitor, it looks like a typical boarding school for the overprivileged-300 acres in Stockbridge, Mass., a mansion, dorms, art studios, a gym, music rehearsal rooms and a barn, and 150 teen-agers so bright-faced and chipper that local residents say they can identify them by the "DeSisto glow...
Like almost everyone else who came into contact with Alex, his nephew found the power of his legend and his charm irresistible. How could it be otherwise with a man who had begun his career directing short films in a disused trolley barn in Budapest and ended up occupying the penthouse floor of Claridge's in London, where Churchill and Beaverbrook lingered over brandy and where a supply of fresh toothbrushes, still in their cellophane wrappers, was kept to accommodate women who decided to spend the night. Some of them, it was said, were seduced...
...worked 110 hours in the last week making vessels for the papal Mass: a chalice, a plate for the Communion bread, a pitcher, a bowl for the washing of hands. Local carpenters crafted an altar and papal chair out of thick oaken beams salvaged from a 100-year-old barn...
...blood, the intestines, lungs, nerves or muscles, each a forge of moisture and heat, a furnace of life, the skeleton, with its two hundred and more bones that Fabian had once counted, seemed no more complex than the crude pillars, posts, joints and frames that made up the barn - and no more mysterious...
Getting out of the truck, Glenney led Leach into a barn. The farmer pointed to a battered 1955 International Harvester tractor. "See this tractor," he said. "I bought that for $3,600 when corn was selling for $3 a bushel. Now this here new one," he said, indicating a bright green and yellow John Deere, "costs $30,000, and I bought that on $2 corn. That's what I mean by the squeeze." Leach was duly impressed. "I'm glad to get some of these things off my chest," Glenney said...