Word: orchard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inevitable result is that one cannot visit Aries without seeing Van Goghs everywhere. The fishing boats on the dark beach of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer have gone, and the fishermen's troglodytic cottages are now replaced by anthill apartment buildings. But to see an Arlesian orchard foaming into April bloom is to glimpse Van Gogh rendering them ("Absolutely clear ... A frenzy of impastos of the faintest yellow and lilac on the original white mass"). Even his symbolism leaves its traces. One cannot see the purple underlights in ploughed furrows against the sunset without thinking of the strange, dull...
...ropes on which the Rangers were inching upward. By the time Rudder's men had seized the cratered cliff (and radioed back, "Praise the Lord"), only 90 of the 225 could still bear arms. And the German guns they had fought to capture they found hidden in an orchard a mile away, apparently moved as a result of earlier air raids...
Shepard and Chaikin worked for three weeks, but then found that the script could no longer benefit from the team, "Shepard has gone off to write it alone," Orchard said...
Shepard and Chaikin chose to work on the project here at Harvard because "they have people and resources they can up into more or less spontaneously," according to Orchard. "They wanted the freedom to experiment with different ideas," he added...
Harvard student composers, actors, and technicians worked with the playwrights. Students assisted with research for the script, based on a Mormon legend involving the story of an angel who falls from heaven and lands in Utah, according to Orchard...