Word: rusticating
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...Rustic Trompe I'Oeil. The results of this technique, at least when Porter was painting, were fresh and simple, but they were marked with the authoritative vision of a minor master. With great tact, Porter blended Hawaiian volcanoes and exotic foliage with views of neat New England farms and valleys. The murals he painted in 1838 for Dr. Francis Howe in Westwood, Mass., are typical. Simple devices create perspective: the arc of a hill, an angled fence, the diminishing height of trees. The viewer feels that he has actually stepped into the landscape. Porter's murals customarily covered...
...Wearing a blue shirt and chinos for an outing with 18 young friends of Tricia, David and Julie at Camp David, where there was no pomp amid rustic circumstance, Charles expertly potted three doubles in a row at skeet. "He's great," said the admiring David. Atop the 555-ft. Washington Monument, Charles was exhilarated by the view of the capital under a full summer moon and impulsively suggested: "Let's walk down." While Anne determinedly led Tricia and Julie toward the elevator, the prince, one hand tucked jauntily in a pocket, paced David down the 898 steps...
...tourists who crossed the Pedernales on a recent Sunday afternoon at the rate of one carload a minute, these are subjects in keeping with what they came to see-the severe rustic furniture, the tin drinking cups of a Texas boyhood, the hand-sewn sampler on L.B.J.'s nursery wall that says...
Canada's exhibit ranks next in popularity. It boasts soaring mirrored walls and rustic wood facing under colorful revolving umbrellas, and is the best-managed exhibit of the fair: 4,000 people move completely through it each hour. Five separate films underscore Canada's youthful exuberance, a theme reinforced by the hard-rocking discotheque that opens late in the afternoon at the Quebec Pavilion...
...Deal. Conway himself will be back on the network headlining a variety hour. So will two other old CBS sitcom stars, Mary Tyler Moore, who will play a career girl at a TV station, and Andy Griffith, who will no longer be a rustic sheriff but headmaster of a private school. Herschel Bernardi will be a fledgling executive in yet another comedy series. CBS's other substitutes will be city-slick, with titles like The Interns and Store-Front Lawyers. The intent, says the network's senior programming vice president, Michael Dann, is to "deal with...