Word: rustic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoji back and forth. It is what Japanese collectors got when they left their silverware to tarnish, instead of polishing it to a bright Tiffany glitter. Wabi is an older and wider concept. It conveys not the dryness and stillness of sabi, but an aristocratic use of "poor," rustic materials. Tea is the origin of much of Japanese design since the 15th century; in fact, the nearest thing to the Western concept of "design"-at least before the 1950s and the Western flood-was the word isho, used in explication of tea culture...
Mondale, an avid fisherman, went on an early-July trip with his family, seeking trout and pike on the Minnesota-Canada border while staying in a rustic cabin with no electricity, phone or running water. But he cut short the vacation at the end of last week to cast his lines before the women's political convention in San Antonio and the N.A.A.C.P. meeting in New Orleans. His political advisers have been trying to find central issues for his campaign; recently Mondale has been focusing on education, arguing that the nation's schools require a restoration...
Students at Cornell University, concerned about the rustic beauty of their rural campus, are protesting a plan to build an 11-story administrative building at one end of the school's central quadrangle...
Just off Route 16 in the remote, rustic greenery of western Massachusetts lives a tall, slender, sophisticated man who spends his quiet days at a drawing board designing yachts. William G. Anderson 19 sketches in his South Natick hilltop home, which is decorated by wooden half-ship models an embroidered oriental rug, and a thick red leatherbound photo album, which records the almost two decades he spent entertaining foreign heads of state, prominent intellectuals and businessmen who wanted to see Harvard...
...Brockmann, a Maryknoll priest, was conveniently out of the country, attending a meeting of the nonaligned nations in New Delhi, when the Pope arrived. But Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, a priest, was in the official receiving line along with other government ministers. He was wearing his typical rustic white cotton shirt, baggy blue work pants and a black beret. As the Pontiff approached, Cardenal whipped off his beret and dropped to his knees to kiss the papal ring. But the Pope appeared to withhold his hand. Wagging his finger at Cardenal, John Paul gave him a public scolding...