I was discussing cropdusting the other day with some co-workers, as you do, and I couldn’t help remembering the classic scene in North by Northwest where Cary Grant is lured into the middle of nowhere and then menaced by a cropdusting biplane. It took me until just now, while writing this post, to think of another movie with a cropduster in it, and it’s much less well known. Mention “cropdusting” to a movie fan, and I’ll wager that they all think of North by Northwest
So what other movie scenes are there that can be brought to mind with a single word? Better still, post a single word here and see if we all think of the same scene. “Rosebud” might work, but some of us will think of the beginning of Citizen Kane, and some might think of the end.
(I did some searches of “cropduster” and “cropdusting”, and there didn’t seem to be complete agreement on whether it’s one word, two word, or hyphenated.)
