The hired hand brings us down to earth, while the star is lost in the clouds.
In Frank Capra movies like "Meet John Doe," the common man is the salt of the earth, while the rich are suspect.
A Japanese Zero fighter rammed a dc-3 and fell to earth, while the American aircraft flew home and its pilot was credited with a kill.
The old woman knelt down and kissed the earth while the old man kept on chanting, in a strange guttural language full of creaks and hisses.
It is constructed from recycled materials: the thick exterior is insulated with old tyres crammed with earth, while the interior walls have multicoloured bottles embedded in cement made from mud and straw.
Since then, the South's economy has grown to become the twelfth largest on earth, while the North's steadily declined and is now estimated to rank somewhere below Burundi's.
His S.C. Johnson building becomes a great length of dark tartan, only just tethered to the earth; while the Seagram skyscraper looms like a giant black mirror, eerily reflecting nothing back of the world.
As the CBS report put it, "Is George W. Bush prepared to lead the most powerful nation on earth?" While the Republican National Committee video had him extolling the virtues of freedom, the CBS and ABC reports included tape of the pop quiz in which he was unable to name world leaders.
'They'd found that more and more people were coming to them for retreats, both religious and secular, and wanted to be able to offer accommodation with complete solitude.' Bates Maher designed for the retreat four cabins in larch and Douglas fir - three cantilever out over the landscape, so occupants literally hover above the earth, while the fourth floats above a river.
