Word: rustication
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush's mega-supersonic 340-foot yacht is a populist nightmare. He should sell it, buy a scuzzy old rowboat, and give the rest of the money to charity. What could be a better "photo op" than George rowing himself and Barbara into the Atlantic Ocean for a rustic fishing outing...
...city man who moves to the country lugs along a cargo of rustic dreams, all calamitous. As writer David Owen, an escaped New Yorker now living in the white clapboard town of Washington, Conn., says in the first sentence of this terrifying confessional memoir, "I love buying expensive power tools and using them to wreck various parts of my house...
...Krishna Camp feeds 3,000 people at a time from the best kitchen on the mountain. CALM, the Center for Alternative Living Medicine, soothes the wounded. Several middle-aged fellows from Massachusetts work for three days to get a rustic automatic dishwasher going: press a foot pedal, and out squirts warm water and bleach. For a tribe of peace-and-love anarchists with no structure and no leaders (their Council is anyone who shows up at the Main Circle), the Rainbows' disorganization is surprisingly effective...
...these kids living in a rustic time warp? Yes. Not far away from the Pine Grove schoolhouse sit two wooden outhouses and the old pickup Cal Phipps drives to school. He is only 13, but there is no school-bus service. Jordan -- nearby by Montana standards -- is the seat of Garfield County, 4,500 sq. mi., where the cattle outnumber the 1,600 humans and the flatlands are ribboned with cliffs called the Missouri Breaks. No one from Pine Grove in recent memory has ventured so far as Chicago for college, and Los Angeles might as well be Pluto...
...first Godfather films sketched a history of the Mafia as a cracked- mirror reflection of American industry. One hoped G3 might pit the Corleones against the bad boys of the drug trade: the old Italians vs. blacks and Hispanics, rustic chivalry vs. cutthroat capitalism. Instead, Coppola, who wrote the screenplay with Puzo, sends Michael on a side trip to Rome and Sicily...