For Sam Shepard, the prizewinning playwright and short-story writer (and sometime Hollywood actor) whose work might be characterized as Grass-Roots Gothic, infused as it is with a sense of folksy madness and populist brutality, the American landscape is a sprawling cemetery, a field of bad dreams spread out between two oceans.
The solution turns, to a large part, on a clearing the field of bad "metaphysical" entities.
Flynt's pattern was to print something that broke new ground in the field of bad taste, getting sued, then fighting that lawsuit until he either exhausted his options or won, thereby setting some sort of legal precedent.
However, I feel that this intellectual crevasse has deepened immensely between religious leaders and their communities, where they can't see the forest for a field of bad ideas.
A recent jump in the price, for example, came after Mexico's state-owned oil firm announced that it would close down some offshore fields because of bad weather even though the lost output amounted to less than 1% of global production.
There is a magnetic field to bad news.
In the region of Mount Zlatibor in western Serbia, the man who protected the fields of his village from bad weather was called a vetrovnjak; the name is derived from vetar "wind".
And the team has endured its share of bad off-field news, including the accusations against the former running back Cecil Collins, who was accused of breaking into a woman's apartment.
Sulley Muntari pulled a goal back for Milan before half-time and the restart at the Heinz Field stadium was delayed because of bad weather.
In the future they might have a more subtle use to manipulate the mix of bugs within a human, so that good bugs spread at the expense of bad ones.The other field that may be changed is genetics.
