The Bridges of Madison County 2005年夏,我刚下飞机的第二天,就租了一辆车从芝加哥向西,穿过伊利诺依的平原,进入Iowa。我把此生在美国的第一次长途旅行,奉献给了Madison的廊桥。那时候,我正遇见我一生中最痛的爱,那个温婉美丽的女子。Robert和Francisca的故事和我们的故事从一开始就在纠缠交织。从Des Moines转下I...
Back in the real Iowa, meanwhile, before the story ever became a film or a book, author Robert Waller was left in July-August 1990 with a completed manuscript and not much more. In fact, he would later say he was not overly enamored with the idea of publishing it as a book, even t...
The summer after he died was the summer of the Great Iowa Flood. Wolfman, as everyone called him, never lived to experience the natural event that brought notoriety to the city and devastation to the lives of so many people who shared his community but never knew he existed. I doubt that...
He is staring at her seated on the porch of her Iowa home, a woman twenty yards older than when he knew her. He smiles. FRANCESCA (V.O.) I had forgotten this. I had somehow remembered it being more his fault, his decision. Then I remembered we made love in that field before we ...
On the other end of the wire is a former Iowan named Michael Johnson. He lives in Florida now. A friend from Iowa has sent him one of my books. Michael Johnson has read it; his sister, Carolyn, has read it; and they have a story in which they think I might be interested. He ...
refusing to say anything about the story, except that he and Carolyn are willing to travel to Iowa to talk with me about it. That they are prepared to make such an effort intrigues me, in spite of my skepticism about such offers. So I agree to meet with them in Des Moines the follow...
Madrid, Iowa High Trestle Trail Bridge A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft. Claremont, California 'Dividing the Light' This public Skyspace created by artist James Turrell for his alma mater puts on a show...
we are in fact passing judgment on "the power of the State as a whole."Rippeyv.Texas, 193 U.S. 504, 509;Skiriotesv.Florida, 313 U.S. 69, 79;United Gas Co. v.Texas, 303 U.S. 123, 142;Missouriv.Dockery, 191 U.S. 165, 171;Iowa-Des Moines Bankv.Bennett, 284 U.S. 239,...
iowa has sent him one of my books michael johnson has read it his sister carolyn has read it and they have a story in which they think i might be interested he is circumspect refusing to say anything about the story except that he and carolyn are willing to travel to iowa to talk ...
For one thing, the shocking prospect surfaced that American abundance itself might be coming to an end. That winter, Des Moines homeowners almost ran out of heating oil, and Denver high schools closed two days a week to conserve fuel. That spring, energy-starved factories closed in West Virg...