His native air had given him a cornucopia of words.
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His music was a cornucopia of ideas: triumphantly, brilliantly kaleidoscopic.
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NYT Cooking has a cornucopia of recipes for Thanksgiving leftovers.
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The show is a cornucopia with something, or many things, for everyone.
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Inside is a cornucopia of peculiar instruments, analogue synths, and recording gear.
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The shelves inside offer a cornucopia befitting France: gleaming leeks, beefsteaks, Camembert cheese.
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That's why the subtitle says 'Alaska Stories,' which suggests a cornucopia of short fiction.
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Here at CES 2016, we've seen a cornucopia of two-wheeled, self-balancing scooters.
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A cornucopia of unfamiliar shapes, colours and flavours could arrive on the dinner table.
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Her kids were living their version of the American dream and inheriting a cornucopia.
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That existence is a cornucopia of delights masquerading as miseries, or perhaps vice versa.
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Democratic presidential candidates have released a cornucopia of policy proposals on housing, unemployment, and healthcare.
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These plants and their seeds are a cornucopia of chemicals with potential for medical use.
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A cornucopia of 44 additional papers are being published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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Many terms come from the names of celebrities, brands and a cornucopia of other colorful sources.
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Instead of a food desert, there is a cornucopia of Safeways, Giants and Whole Foods Markets.
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"Brazil is a cornucopia of reform possibilities, all of which will help drive growth," Johnson said.
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Do you see each day as a cornucopia of opportunity or an unceasing list of chores?
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The fair is a cornucopia of art-world rarities, oddities, and editioned experiments at every turn.
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Do you plant a cornucopia of giant Isa Genzken flowers at its base to pretty it up?
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The company has added its voice assistant to a cornucopia of gadgets, from smart rings to microwaves.
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But architecturally I took in all five boroughs, which provided a cornucopia of treats for my hungry eyes.
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A cornucopia of fresh fruits had been laid out, but the Goopies seemed to prefer these branded potions.
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Semi-automatic rifles, a few shotguns, and a cornucopia of handguns are all easily found alongside their complementary ammunition.
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In addition, a cornucopia of new and existing angel investors and early-stage funds committed capital to the round.
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A Cornucopia of Grandparents (2018) Today there are children with six or eight grandparents, step-grandparents and grandparent-equivalents.
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In the case of Beautiful Boy, that force is a cornucopia of substances, but most primarily and dangerously meth.
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Since the tweet was posted, fans have been working hard on edits because the internet is a cornucopia of magic.
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After a cornucopia of research has been conducted on the topic, doctors now know that that the fears were misguided.
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To hold the South Korean president in check, Johnson gave him a cornucopia of military equipment, including two Navy destroyers.
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Brett Anderson, Reporter by Nigel Slater (Abrams, 2008) It offers a cornucopia of pantry delights, easily made and very delicious.
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A cornucopia of items from Robin Williams's personal archive will come up for sale at an auction on Oct. 4.
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On its own ridiculous, meaningless terms, Inferno is a cornucopia of hacky plot gimmicks served up with shameless brio: Memory loss!
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Each was assigned a bridge, resulting in a cornucopia of spectacular light designs that treats each bridge as an individual artwork.
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But only on Sunday mornings do eccentric hoarders take to Avissynias Square where they lay out a cornucopia of vintage curios.
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A cornucopia overflowing with delicious news of every flavor: There's fat bears and sweet high schoolers and, hey, even a little opera.
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Their new album, Uninhabit, was produced by Lyons and Tanya Tagaq producer/violinist Jesse Zubot, and is a cornucopia of sonic experimentation.
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"Not only is this a culinary extravaganza, it's a cornucopia of inedible amenities," Sherry says of his restaurant's over-the-top tradition.
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As I waited, I was drawn to the restaurant's enormous, glowing, refrigerated windows, where a cornucopia of tempting food was on display.
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Derek McLane's fab psychedelic valentine of a set — a cornucopia of nesting pink hearts — is on full display when the audience arrives.
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For contemporary-art lovers, Art Basel is a cornucopia of finds, from site-specific installations and videos to sculptures, photography and paintings.
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Quora offers a cornucopia of information that you didn't know you wanted, but so frequently find thanks to on-point search engine optimization.
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For those of you who fantasize of a cornucopia of threesomes, however, it looks like Tinder has all but neutered that dream.[Broadly]
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It offers, in short, a cornucopia of visual oddities that seem arbitrary yet torment the reader because they suggest the possibility of meaning.
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At this carnival, Ms. Perry wasn't quite a ringleader, but more like a wide-eyed enthusiast let loose among a cornucopia of playthings.
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KS: Is that a function of this administration or just government in general saying what a cornucopia of information we have available here?
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But the classics are tucked into a cornucopia of lazy movie tie-ins, mediocre sports games, and even a handful of forgettable Mario adventures.
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They have a cornucopia of uniforms and lift weights in a 6,000-square-foot facility that came by way of the University of Mississippi.
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Image: Geo Search ToolYouTube contains a cornucopia of weird stuff: Sniff around long enough, and you're likely to stumble upon some truly bizarre videos.
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We did not get into every possible topic — Uber is a cornucopia of news these days, and our show can't be four hours long.
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You are such a cornucopia of delights and terrors in one infinite virtual box, it's a wonder that humanity allows you to exist at all.
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My walk to work is a cornucopia of regurgitated kebabs, discarded chicken bones, and empty cans of Nurishment balanced on top of BT cable posts.
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Our open institutions grant foreign friends and foes alike a cornucopia of opportunities to pursue their interests inside our borders, and they do just that.
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The Week Ahead This is what to expect from the week ahead: For fans of tech stocks, this week is a cornucopia of earnings information.
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"I'm confident these actions will lead to a cornucopia of unanticipated innovative uses, and generate tens of billions of dollars in economic activity," he said.
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A third option is developing farther down the road in Abu Dhabi, where a cornucopia of long-delayed museum projects is finally coming to fruition.
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From the moment it began in November, the trial has offered up a cornucopia of drug-world lore — with weird, wild and seemingly unimaginable details.
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The logo of this new West Village restaurant features a bird perched atop a cornucopia of vegetal delights, which itself sits atop a woman's head.
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I. scapularis larva and eggs, via Andrew NussTick saliva, for instance, is a cornucopia of pharmaceuticals, containing thousands of antimicrobials, analgesics, blood thinners, and immune suppressors.
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At Sephora, the season of giving means a cornucopia of limited-edition collabs (hi, Desi Perkins x Benefit!), glitter, advent calendars, and one-off gift sets.
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It would let users find each other, pay digital and offline shopkeepers, or purchase a cornucopia of online services—perhaps one day using Facebook's own currency.
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With its massive new round, Plenty certainly has a rich foundation from which to spread its seeds, but the company also has a cornucopia of competitors.
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The territory hosts a cornucopia of wild game — there are at least twice as many moose as humans here, for example — making it a hunter's paradise.
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The album was a commercial flop but became, over the next decades, a cornucopia of ideas for punk, hard rock, art-rock, indie-rock and more.
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Tender Buttons, housed in a 0003-foot-wide (3.8-meter) brownstone on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is stuffed to the ceiling with a cornucopia of clothing fasteners.
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Topics of the day include a cornucopia of Knicks rumors, the shifting nature of the traditional center, and spiteful old timers and the mythology of hand-checking.
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Porn, she explained, shows viewers not just a cornucopia of diverse sex acts, but the full range of human shapes, sizes, and colors—almost literally without exception.
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The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands, is a cornucopia like those sometimes depicted in the old master paintings on view, spilling over with riches.
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Thursday's opening night was quite a cornucopia, though its later sections grew diffuse with too many bits and pieces; at two hours 45 minutes it was overlong.
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And whenever your ... friend smokes, dabs, or eats an edible, the tetrahydrocannabinol molecules therein bind to these sites, stimulating the cells to release a cornucopia of chemical signals.
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Joining Lil Nas X is a cornucopia of famous faces from music and film, including Billy Ray Cyrus (of course), Chris Rock, Diplo, Vince Staples and Rico Nasty.
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A search for "Nazi" on Giphy, for example, will yield no results; type the same term on Tenor, meanwhile, and a cornucopia of animated Hitler clips will appear.
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He envisions Canadian scientists conducting a cornucopia of taboo-defying research, from decoding cannabis's sensory appeal to testing whether it can be used as a substitute for alcohol.
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Millions face a 'cornucopia of hazards' The storm in the western US has put more than 20 million people under a winter threat, CNN meteorologist Gene Norman said.
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By 2025, the legal U.S. marijuana market could be a roughly $50 billion business as a cornucopia of cannabis-based products become easily available in shops and online.
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When the ice cream vendor ran out of cups, Hamwi decided to roll up his waffles into a cornucopia shape so that it could hold scoops of ice cream.
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If you visit the vast farmers market in Eastern Market on weekends you will find a cornucopia of local produce from some of the city's 1,400 gardens and farms.
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Featured in the documentary film Mirage Men, Doty and AFOSI allegedly seeded a cornucopia of misinformation on UFOs in the 20153s in an attempt to safeguard classified UFO technology.
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Other effects are more trivial: It's Froot (not Fruit) Loops cereal, Jif (not Jiffy) peanut butter, and the Fruit of the Loom clothing logo (does not feature a cornucopia).
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With such privileged access to a cornucopia of potent highs, clinicians have a history of becoming addicted to the tools of their trade, although it's always remained a taboo subject.
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It spotlighted two 300-pound resin-coated sculptures suspended overhead, fusing forms associated with pairs of ages; Harvest/Excess involved a rat, plows, a cornucopia and an accumulation of detritus.
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There, Ms. Chávez pointed to bags of marijuana (it's not legal, but decriminalized) alongside a cornucopia of potatoes, dozens of varieties, including neon pink miniatures that looked like candied jawbreakers.
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Typically when weddings, graduations, and prom came around, an updo the size of a cornucopia was involved — and so were one million bobby pins and copious amounts of extra-hold hairspray.
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Far from having nothing to lose but their chains, the workers of the world—at least the rich world—had secure jobs, houses in the suburbs and a cornucopia of possessions.
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There may have been a time when the answer to that (non-rhetorical) question included a cornucopia of excuses — grocery shopping is hard, cooking is hard, thinking of recipes is hard.
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Concern over abuse of power has been heightened by Brazil's current political chaos, which has exposed a cornucopia of unethical, and often allegedly criminal, conduct by political leaders across the spectrum.
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As Chairman Wheeler said in a recent speech, U.S. leadership on 5G can lead to a "cornucopia of unanticipated innovative uses" that will improve quality of life and increase economic opportunity.
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And while you're there, trying not to buy everything in sight, stop by Unveiling Visions, an exhibition that features a cornucopia of sci-fi, fantasy, and Afrofuturist material from the center's collections.
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Around noon, a cornucopia of racists had gathered around a statute of Confederate general Robert E. Lee that was set to be removed, and their opponents surrounded them on the streets below.
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Since the Olympics began, he said, the police have barred him from Copacabana, a neighborhood that provides a cornucopia of discarded food and items like cardboard that can be sold to recyclers.
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When brands use Facebook to target specific people with ads, they are able to select from a cornucopia of traits, including age, gender and how many lines of credit a person has.
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New offerings include downhill skiing with stunning lake views, log cabin hotels and a cornucopia of dried berries gathered from the surrounding woods that can be washed down with organic Siberian teas.
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Nonetheless, the lawsuit is potentially damaging to Uber, because it contains an awful lot of information about internal woes at the company, confirming a cornucopia of reporting done on Kalanick's dysfunctional management.
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A new website built specifically to sell the deal promises a cornucopia of new jobs, improved broadband service, and increased competition if the two companies are allowed to complete their $26 billion deal.
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Apps like Fabby Look help you to change your iHair color and there are a cornucopia of apps that allow you to have digital surgery (for better or for worse, per Amanda Hess).
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Its Instagram feed for its men's line, for example, which has more than 855,000 followers, is a cornucopia of F.O.M.O.-inducing shots of stylish young lovelies cavorting in exotic locales wearing cool watches.
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Ernest Gonzales is a graphic designer, and spreads out a cornucopia of unofficial Beto stickers he's made, playing on the logos for the San Antonio Spurs and beloved local grocery store H-E-B.
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Following on from North Korea's latest series of rocket trials, a cornucopia of ballistic missiles paraded in Pyongyang on April 15 -- including ICBM launchers -- was a bold signal of intent to do just that.
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Innovation provides a cornucopia of new consumer devices and improves our standard of living in countless ways, but as machines get smarter and smarter, more people worry whether robots are coming for their jobs.
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The deli is a cornucopia of healthy, affordable eats ranging from organic rice and bean bowls to the buffalo popcorn hero, a vegetarian sandwich made with their signature "popcorn tofu" doused in buffalo sauce.
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Through the wonders of technology, none of us need to settle for our ancestors' mundane forms of masturbation—a cornucopia of dazzling carnal delights are here to help us bust a high-tech nut.
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Sidney Lumet's 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel Murder on the Orient Express was a cornucopia of famous actors, snappy dialogue, and a war between Sean Connery's eyebrows and mustache over control of his face.
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Cunningham made two wonderfully forward-looking pieces, "XOVER" (2007), with its long and astounding central duet; and "Nearly Ninety" (2009), premiered just three months before his death, a cornucopia of Haydn-like inventiveness and vision.
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We've already mentioned the excellent Supercoven and Legalise Drugs and Murder EPs, but there is also a cornucopia of excellent music available on limited edition EPs and split discs too... and you're going to need deep pockets.
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Europe imports about 29 percent of the British catch, a cornucopia of 22 species that is too exotic for most domestic consumers, such as the cuttlefish and megrim sole sold every morning at Newlyn's market in Cornwall.
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His nuclear bombs and ICBMs are no match for the South Korean "soaps" that are increasingly enjoyed by Pyongyang's residents, filling their living rooms with images of a cornucopia of goods they can otherwise only dream of.
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The fourth inaugurated a cornucopia of feature sections that were different for each weekday: Sports on Mondays; Science on Tuesdays; Living on Wednesdays; a Home section on Thursdays; and Weekend, an arts and entertainment section, on Fridays.
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Yet in a series of greenhouses on his property, he is growing five different types of bananas, giant towering trees ripe with Mediterranean figs, and a cornucopia of tropical goods, like taro, cherimoyas, mangoes, sweet potatoes, and papayas.
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Mr. Trump justified his decision by saying that the Paris agreement was a bad deal for the United States, buttressing his argument with a cornucopia of dystopian, dishonest and discredited data based on numbers from industry-friendly sources.
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The vast majority of dealers and auction houses were not implicated, however, and they are looking forward to displaying a cornucopia of traditional and modern works, including porcelain, jewelry, textiles, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, bronzes, prints, photographs and jades.
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In the 20163th district, Thorburn is one of a cornucopia of Democratic candidates — sparking fears that Democratic voters may spread their support so thin that the top two slots on the general election ballot will go to Republican candidates.
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He called this trauma "primal pain," and it was manifest, he said, in a cornucopia of ills that could include a variety of mood disorders as well as heart disease, high blood pressure, ulcerative colitis, drug addiction and stuttering.
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Starting in October 2018, its two stages and hub-world (the area where players first meet) were constructed by a team of over 50 "builders," working at an epic sci-fi scale, albeit grounded by a cornucopia of delicate, personal touches.
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For this, he's corralled some 50 artists, from painters to actors to rogue jesters, to transform 26 rooms on four floors, populating them with sculptures, speakeasies, interactive theater, immersive installations, and a cornucopia of other art that defies easy categorization.
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The Bruins responded by guarding the perimeter players and declining to double-team Johnson, and as a result he took advantage of a cornucopia of easy shots near the basket and scored 27 points in the Tar Heels' 89-53 victory.
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Though he warned prosecutors, "We don't convict people because they have a lot of money to throw around," the judge had already permitted the now chastened prosecutors to introduce into evidence a cornucopia of lavish and seemingly reckless Manafort spending sprees.
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Sitting in the shade of a quiet side garden of the Lazy Lizard cafe, we munched on crisp loaves of homemade bread and a Karoo Plate, stocked with a cornucopia of the Karoo's offerings — lamb, cheese, Bulgarian yogurt, figs and olives.
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In the frustrating, unfair world of acne, some people don't scar — their bodies produce enough collagen to reverse the fat loss and subsequent divots that are caused by a particularly aggressive pimple — while others are left with a cornucopia of scar variations.
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Pretty much every family in Macau has their own take on the iconic dish, but with countless variations and a damn murky origin that crisscrosses between a cornucopia of cultures, just where is one to turn in one's quest for proper minchi?
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Analysts said the main challenge for The New Day was changing the habits of readers, who have become used to a cornucopia of free content online, as well as the convenience of being able to read it on mobile phones and other devices.
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There's a cornucopia of Instagram accounts, Facebook groups, and websites dedicated to showcasing street art from not just the capital but around the world, as well as the fact artists like Banksy, Ben Eine, and Space Invader are now seen as cultural icons.
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Prosecutors and defense lawyers proposed a cornucopia of possible solutions, ranging from finishing the trial with just 11 jurors to replacing a current juror with an alternate — a move that would require the newly constituted 12-member jury to restart deliberations entirely.
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Teams of cooks in towering chef caps, together with white-suited dietitians, had 45 minutes to transform a cornucopia of fruits, vegetables and meats piled on a table at the center of the auditorium into four-course meals of their own devising.
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Mr. Giaiotti performed stalwart duty at the Met at a time when both the Met and its Lincoln Center neighbor, New York City Opera, served up a cornucopia of great basses, among them Cesare Siepi, Jerome Hines, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Samuel Ramey.
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We're not just talking about a bottle of Yellow Tail slugged down behind your aunt's Beanie Baby collection, but a cornucopia of cocktails so all-encompassing, your extended family is guaranteed to be left in a pleasant haze of jovial drunkenness all day long.
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The marketplaces offer a cornucopia of illicit drugs, as well as stolen credit cards, hacking services, weapons, and, allegedly, hitman services — though investigations have failed to turn up proof that the murderer-for-hire schemes on the darknet are anything other than a scam.
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It's one sliver of the internet history that too often gets overlooked, and it's among a cornucopia of stories featured in a new book, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire Evans, the co-founder of Motherboard's Terraform section.
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The closure of the Tsukiji market will punctuate the end of the post-war era for many of the mom-and-pop shops just outside the main market that peddle a cornucopia of sea-related products, from dried squid and seaweed to whale bacon and caviar.
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Sara's class, at a school similar to City College, is populated largely by young black men; the town where she and Victor rent a chateaulike "studio" is, from his perspective, a cornucopia of sexy Latinas — one of whom (Maritza Rivera) he takes on as his model.
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Iris Keitel, a retired music industry executive who lives in Manhattan and on Meadow Lane in Westhampton Beach, tore up her Har-Tru tennis court two years ago and hired the organic gardener Suzanne P. Ruggles to plant alliums, Green Zebra tomatoes and a cornucopia of vegetables.
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This reprieve, if it can be called one, is the latest tidbit in a cornucopia of data from Gaia, a European spacecraft tasked with measuring the precise positions, velocities and other attributes of more than a billion stars in the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies.
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The dogs of Isle of Dogs, we're informed early on, have had their barks transliterated into English, and they're brought to life by a cornucopia of talent, most notably a pack of five dogs voiced by Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, and Jeff Goldblum.
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The operation claimed to have seized a cornucopia of hallucinogenic highs, including 3,650 doses of MDMA, 20123 LSD tabs, 26 bottles of LSD liquid, 40 LSD-impregnated chewing gums, 216 grams of magic mushrooms, 492 grams of DMT mixture, 47 doses of mescaline, and 130 grams of ketamine.
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There is a whole category of chip-like snacks, made from a cornucopia of unchip-like vegetables — cauliflower, jackfruit, beets, peas — that are "from the ground" and "from the farm" and "all natural," and while all that is true, it is also true that they are basically just chips.
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In Jimmy's kitchen is what Clyde describes as "a robbery to-do list," the idea being to steal a cornucopia of cash from the Charlotte Motor Speedway, in Concord, North Carolina—or, more precisely, to suck the cash from a vault beneath the track, through a network of tubes.
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On a tour of the exhibit, participants handled silicon squash, a material used in Michael Arcega's sculpture, "The Enchanted Island," inspired by a story about a shipwrecked rabbi going into a mansion and finding two objects on a table: a cornucopia and a ram's horn, to summon people to prayer.
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Cuomo fails to take any responsibility for a steadily rising budget, which incorporates ever-greater benefits for people in the country illegally, higher pay for public employee unions, free college tuition and a cornucopia of other goodies handed out by legislators but paid for by a dwindling number of taxpayers.
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But clearly, if every human had a cornucopia of the world's edibles laid out on a table stretching from one end of the earth to the next, not everyone would dig enthusiastically into, say, a lamprey pie, a sliver of maggot-infested pecorino or a chunk of rotten shark meat.
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Anyone who walked into a Trump rally—and likely every public event he will hold as president—was confronted with a fold-out table covered in Trump steaks, bottles of Trump vodka, cases of Trump wine, and still-wrapped Trump water, a cornucopia of meat and booze worthy of a Dutch still life.
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"We've heard from a cornucopia of people," says Fred Marik, a broker in Las Vegas who is marketing the town of Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada — a 2000-acre town of 21.5 people that includes a casino, airport, post office, its own water supply, an RV park and a mobile home park — for $217 million.
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Björk's work was exhibited across a cornucopia of mediums: Bizarre instruments used on Biophilia (everything from a pipe organ to a Tesla coil) welcomed patrons on the first floor, while the narrative of Björk's life was told through the lens of Icelandic poet Sjon (a collaborator alongside Björk and Lars von Trier on New World).
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A clinical psychologist, Dr. Grant was known for her soothing, honeyed voice; her pragmatic approach to listeners' questions about a cornucopia of delicate subjects — marriage, divorce, sex, dating, cross-dressing, child rearing — and advice that, while it pulled no punches, was far less bellicose than that of some psychologists who followed her onto the airwaves.
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Aside from the reams of paperwork and science books, it is a cornucopia of biological curios: a pickled bat in a perspex box, monkey skulls, horse skulls, the scull of a saber-tooth tiger, a dead crow, a stuffed fish and a plastic bag of preserved rats from the 1920s hanging on the door.
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Some researchers hope a completely different frontier could contain a cornucopia of never-before-seen molecules to cure our ails: The hydrothermal vents on the seafloor where water seeps into cracks in the rock, is heated by magma, and spews out in smoke plumes from rocky towers that can measure well over a hundred feet tall.
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Living almost within spitting distance of the last city remnants of Berlin Wall, I have cycled to Poland, through the rolling, baked yellow countryside of the former East Germany, read the original menu from the Fernsehturm de Berlin (the restaurant at the top of East Berlin's TV tower), and discovered a cornucopia of Soviet memorabilia in a man's attic.
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The arts streaming service, which has been inching its way into the United States market after launching last year in Britain, is a cornucopia of dance, music and theater performances from international venues like Shakespeare's Globe and the Royal Opera House in London, Opera National de Paris, Teatro Real in Madrid and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
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Though never known as a haven for bargains, the store became a magnet for shoppers searching for — and willing to pay top dollar for — elusive vacuum cleaner bags, replacement glass coffee decanters, light-switch plates in scores of colors, specialty stain removers, hard-to-find bulbs, decorative lighting fixtures and pictures frames, designer dinnerware and bedding, and a cornucopia of other items.
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Other levels of the factory — which Pfizer built in 1946, shut down in 2008, and sold to developer Acumen Capital Partners in 2011 for $26 million — host a cornucopia of tasty tenants, including high-end food companies, small-batch distilleries, off-site facilities of the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, and Pratt's own business incubator, the Brooklyn Fashion and Design Accelerator.
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A closer look might reveal a cornucopia of fruits on the very same shelf: oranges not only peeled but sliced by this steady unseen hand, meticulously arranged in even larger plastic containers, each awaiting their turn to be shuffled into reusable organic cotton tote bags alongside dozens of other responsibly sourced plastic-wrapped foods and driven in fossil fuel-consuming vehicles to their new Instacart-user homes.
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The best way to embrace the scope of northeastern cuisine is at Parraxaxá, in the Boa Viagem neighborhood, where a traditional Brazilian per-kilo buffet turns into a cornucopia of otherwise difficult to find local foods worth trying, such as stewed goat with dried coconut and pumpkin, carne-de-sol steak (a kind of brisket) covered in queijo coalho (a local cheese), and fruit juices made from gritty cajá and milky cashew fruit.
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At the same time, Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward were delivering bigness to the rural masses through the original home shopping network: consolidated mail-order catalogs, some over 700 pages, that offered everything from button-hooks and brassieres to motor buggies, delivered directly to their customer's doorstep via the U.S.P.S. An early Sears catalog cover, boasting "Our trade reaches around the world," featured a fair-skinned maiden, addressed envelope in hand, floating over a bucolic American farmstead astride a cornucopia spilling furniture, guns, pianos and clothing.
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