Hazelton prefers picnics that are not spontaneous.. She  contends a picnic begins when you “invite the people and then figure out the food.”  “My idea of a good picnic, she writes, “is one that I can fix up at home and need only carry and unpack at the chosen spot. I loathe cooking out-of-doors, which […] read more

Attenborough’s Oh! What a Lovely War keeps the essential anti-war satire originally envisioned by Charles Chiltern and Joan Littlewood. New and effective, however, is the film’s final sequence, which begins as a picnic on the grass and ends with a panoramic view of four women meandering through a military cemetery, white crosses on a field […] read more

The feast that decorates Vibia’s resembles a picnic. Her life story is painted in an indented arch. In a comic strip style, Vibia journeys through Hades to Elysium at her death. On the left, Vibia is being led through an archway labeled Inductio by Good Angel, Angelus Bonus. She is the central figure among five […] read more