Word: ruralism
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...MOVIE IS BETTER: There's a lot more of the grit of everyday life in 18th century rural Britain that was commonplace to Austen but is new to us. Animals wander through the house. There's mud everywhere. Also, it ends with a kiss...
...pouty Knightley against a stunning British countryside isn’t visually appealing, but Wright is far more successful at extending the narrative when he restrains himself to the intimacy of Austen’s domestic world. A tracking shot, in the style of Robert Altman, explore the rural, homespun details of the Bennett’s “socially inferior” home, while the lush ball sequences with exquisite costuming and choreography visually convey the complex relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy. Every little girl who grew up wanting to be Elizabeth Bennett can see her dream realized...
...town of Hamden, Conn. has little, if any, of the hustle and bustle of 5th Avenue. A far cry from the East Side, Hamden is a quiet suburb, easing the transition from urban New Haven to rural Chesire. Most of Hamden was originally a farm whose vestiges still linger on as stone walls in backyards and undeveloped fields. At its outskirts, Hamden is a liquor store and a gas station with barely paved roads and population densities approaching zero. Near New Haven, Hamden is schools, large colonials, and parks interspersed with restaurants and bars. But most of Hamden lies between...
Just before midnight on a remote road in rural Victoria last December, worried residents spotted a group of young men in military-style clothing gathered around several vehicles. They called local police, who confronted the men in bushland near Kinglake, about 60 km northeast of Melbourne. The group claimed they were there to play paintball, a game - illegal in Victoria - in which participants shoot at each other with paint-filled pellets. But in one of the cars was a laptop computer which police say had little to do with harmless play: it contained a digital manual on homemade explosives...
...products. "In India only about 1% of the population has the ability to afford the Razr," Garriques says. "The real pull for us is the other 1.1 billion people who can't afford a Razr." To reach them, Motorola is working with local carriers to take their phones into rural areas and in some cases help arrange financing. "We have vans, buses, jeeps, carts," Garriques says. "We go right to them...