Since his breakthrough play in 1980 -- "Extremities," set between Princeton and Trenton "where the cornfield meets the highway" -- his ouevre, including screenplays, television plays and mini-series, has been prodigious.
When the men were rallied and advanced into the Cornfield, they met the same artillery and infantry fire as their predecessors.
CJ Flood has a gift for small, purposeful details: settings, such as the charmed hollow in the cornfield where Iris and Trick meet on lazy mornings, or the riotous paddock at night as the tractors begin the eviction, are quietly but brilliantly visual and full of feeling.
One day in late September, twenty teen-age athletes gathered for practice on a dirt road in front of Rametlwana Lower Primary School, after walking half an hour through yellow cornfields from their homes, to meet their coach, Jeremiah Mokaba.
Season 2 concludes with Ben's setting out to confront Brother Justin in California, where they finally meet in battle in a cornfield.
What will Ruth's mother-in-law think of the handsome stranger she met in the cornfield?
What will Ruth's mother-in-law think of the handsome stranger she met in the cornfield, and until then remember that nothing on earth can make those great, fat hands of yours attractive.
And then I remembered the thousands of Syrian refugees I saw and met streaming through the hot cornfields of northern Greece last summer en route to Macedonia, and the pictures of those tens of thousands walking the frozen railway tracks north to Germany, and of course it made sense.
I understood why the scene in which Iris meets her Irish Traveller boyfriend in a cornfield alarmed him, in spite of the fact that the characters share only one chaste kiss, preferring to swim in the lake and talk through problems to which no one else will listen.
Luisa, the oldest of 10 children, met Miguel when he worked for her family in their cornfields.
A famous test pilot meets his dream-girl after making a forced landing in a Kansas cornfield.
