Word: homespuns
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...chapel owed much to the prevailing international Modernism of the moment, which Bawa was steeped in from his days as a student at the famed Architectural Association in London during the late 1950s. But Bawa's almost exclusive use of local materials was an incipient sign of the homespun revolution to come. His signature "Contemporary Vernacular" style, fusing Modernist elements with traditional design, would fully develop and forever remodel the architectural face of tropical Asia...
...final lines, “Assuming all things are equal / Who’d want to be men of the people / When there’s people like you?” Despite the band’s rejection of polished production values, there is great appeal in its homespun honesty. The musicians like to relax and have a good time, but when it comes to their music, they work their asses off. And regardless of whether or not you like the video, the bottom line is that the Arctic Monkeys probably just don’t care...
...previous solo LPs (2002’s “The Creek Drank the Cradle” and 2004’s “Our Endless Numbered Days”) glowed with disarming, whispered proximity. While these full-lengths and a few interspersed EPs have found his homespun aesthetic—all tape hum and endearing errors—buried beneath ever-thickening layers of production, his new release, “The Shepherd’s Dog,” stands like a Hollywood blockbuster beside the backstage vaudeville of the catalogue that precedes it. Gone...
...listen to CNBC? Turn the dial a few notches to HGTV, and the housing boom has never been boomier. HGTV, the homespun redoubt of gardening and glue-gun projects that became a cable hit in the post-9/11 cocooning era, is now dominated by what it calls "Property Buzz" shows: series about buying and selling homes, which now make up six of the channel's 10 highest-rated shows. Shows like Secrets That Sell!, Designed to Sell, Bought & Sold, Get It Sold--notice a pattern?--offer a guide to tapping, Jed Clampett--style, the gusher of wealth sitting under...
George W. Bush recognized there was a crisis in the American health care system. But he thought the problem was that physicians' six-figure incomes weren't high enough. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business," the graduate of Yale and Harvard said in his homespun way in September 2004, two months before he was reelected. "Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country...