Tom Cruise landing a plane in a cornfield with an anxious and tipsy Cameron Diaz at his side?
But sometimes I help to redefine what exactly they want done -- like the time my clients thought they could pull off a 350-guest event in the middle of a cornfield with only a single portable toilet.
I was surrounded by Europe and at the same time marooned in cornfields, with a frat house across the street.
It is the equivalent of plowing a cornfield, with this difference: a farmer plows his own field once a year, but trawlers cover "the same grounds year round on a daily basis".
Whole files of Citroen 2CVs were lined up on the verge and, most inventively of all, a brace of maypoles were set up, forming the wheels in a giant bicycle laid out in a cornfield, with the ribbons moved in a circle by dancers to give the illusion of spokes turning.
Malcolm Morley's "Last Painting of Vincent van Gogh" (1972) is an installation consisting of an almost exact copy of "Cornfield With Rooks" (1890) on an easel and a floor-bound artist's supply box containing spent, lead-paint tubes, a messy palette, two paint-covered rags and a loaded gun.
It was a very rural, working-class upbringing and one of my earliest memories is walking through a cornfield with my dad.
A place for horses and hay since before the Civil War, the old red barn stands at the edge of a cornfield, with its hand-pegged boards and ladder rungs still covered with bark.
Predictably, this is a talent she ascribes to Alice Munro, via an unnamed friend: Munro "captures so well those surprising moments of life that you never knew were possible," the friend remarks, "like suddenly finding yourself in a cornfield with your pants around your ankles".
