Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TURNER. While Constable, Crome and Gainsborough were painters in the rustic style, Joseph Mallord William Turner painted in what Basil Taylor calls the sublime style. With his sketchbook and a change of linen, he wandered about England looking for scenes of abstract emotion, and it has been said that the whole romantic wing of today's abstract painting derives from him. Once he had himself lashed to the mast of a boat for four hours during a severe storm at sea. Critics called the resulting painting "a mass of soapsuds and whitewash." Turner protested: "I wonder what they think...
...hold the distinguished minority leader. I would weave with words a magic spell over the Senate as he has done so many times. With words, I would lift the eyes of the Senators to the mountain peaks and the stars beyond, or I would lead them gently down a rustic road in Illinois. With words, I would lay bare the heart of a flower or pry open the fiery core of the atom that the Senate might appreciate the depth and breadth of the Senator from Illinois." Ev might have wished he'd said that...
...situation comedies will be stretching further than ever for their situations. Perennial Loretta Young will be a widow with seven children. There will be rustic mountain folk living in Los Angeles (The Beverly Hillbillies), carpenters exchanging old saws (I'm Dickens . . . He's Fenster), and Stanley Holloway as a British butler on the staff of an American family (Our Man Higgins). The producers of The Flintstones have a new family called The Jetsons, who live one century in the future. Mrs. Jetson has a high-IQ vacuum cleaner that can see, think and maneuver...
Woodland West had the unmistakable development look, but its houses were spaced irregularly, and had variations of external finish that enabled them to be labeled ranch, colonial, rustic or modern...
...dollars into a series of projects supporting the currently unfashionable kind of art that he and a great many other people admire. He set up a foundation for artists, composers and writers, who are invited to spend up to six months at the foundation estate in Los Angeles' Rustic Canyon. He founded the Huntington Hartford Theatre in Hollywood. He is building his own art gallery in Manhattan. Even Paradise Island is intended to become a place for "cultural enjoyment - no automobiles, no roulette wheels, no honky-tonks...