Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, thrifty and adventurous tourists have known how to find good accommodations in Britain without uniformed doormen, glittering ballrooms, 24-hour room service and computerized reservations. The secret: the British institution of bed-and-breakfast establishments. These are private homes, ranging from stately Victorian town houses to rustic country cottages, whose owners turn over their spare bedrooms to paying guests and include the next day's morning meal in the price. Mostly small and as individual as their owners, the B & Bs generally provide a cozy version of home away from home...
...first taste of summitry as leaders of the seven mightiest non-Communist industrial powers meet in Canada for the latest in a series of annual conferences devoted to economic affairs. It promises to be a quiet and, at least on the surface, harmonious session, in keeping with its rustic setting. Le Chateau Montebello, 40 miles east of Ottawa, is the world's largest building made of logs. (One member of the U.S. advance team ungenerously called it "a dump...
...owners of the Finca Florencia, the powerful family that built the plantation is still a ghostly presence. They revere the memory of Angel, the patriarch who founded the finca in the late 1880s and built the big rustic house with its brick pillars and its view reaching from tin-roofed barns to stone walls enclosing acre after acre of lush coffee bushes. For 60 years, the plantation prospered under Angel and his grandson Carlos. Then Carlos turned over the Finca Florencia to his four sons, and by the 1950s the farm was in the hands of a hired manager...
...backward boondocks, where women are expected to toil for their keep. Poor Albin, forced to live not a fantasy of femininity but one of its harsher realities, finds himself scrubbing floors and harvesting grain-all of which distinctly goes against his grain. He is also pursued by an inarticulate rustic type, who is apparently smitten by the hearty figure he cuts in a peasant skirt. There are good laughs in this unlikely obsession, and in a well-managed final shootout...
...response demanded by the subject. He handles the contradictions of daily life--the ones that give the movie a surreal ambience in details like, an old Indian woman newly dislocated from her tribal existence listening raptly to the Everly Brothers on her Sony or the appearance of Polices in rustic back country hamlets--with a comic finesses that never excludes serious meaning, yet never preaches it. Diegues remains oddly hopeful as he charts Brazil's delirious, stumbling trip into the modern world, celebrating the zest of the new Brazil even as he laught at its absurdities. This third World production...