Word: rusticating
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...this black-and-white timbered home in a rustic patch of Hertfordshire, in south England's home counties, is not just an ordinary house...
...because the economic pressures are just too great," says Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin, adding that Mary Ann Singleton, his protagonist in the series first published in the Chronicle, couldn't afford to rent in San Francisco today. Singleton, like Maupin, lived for a pittance in a rustic roof apartment with sweeping views of the bay. "I spent my 20s in San Francisco simply grateful that I could pay the $175 it took to live in paradise," he recalls. "I could practically find the money on the street." Maupin, who purchased a house in 1993 before the market...
...Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development John R. Stilgoe mused on how much time and effort all of us energetic first-years had spent on getting into Harvard, and he felt it was his duty to help us get out. Flipping through slides of New England sights rustic and unusual, he said it was our duty to find out what existed beyond the Yard, and to come back better people...
...summer camp, that magical time warp when contemporary children inhabit a bygone era, bunking in rustic cabins along unspoiled lakeshores, learning ancient arts like archery and canoeing, and living by the light of the sun, the moon and the fireflies. But recently, an invader from the modern world has begun to infiltrate that bucolic Brigadoon. Its name: e-mail...
DIED. GILBERT TRIGANO, 80, anti-Nazi propagandist who helped develop Club Med into a hedonistic waterside-resort chain; in Paris. A member of the French Resistance, he wrote for a communist paper after the war, later renting tents to the then rustic-themed vacation spots and eventually establishing them as the ultimate sybaritic destinations...