Word: rustication
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...live, and houses on pleasant, leafy streets can be found, at relatively low prices, within a 10-minute drive of downtown. Hills, lakes and mountains are only 25 minutes away, and, at a phone booth, a flyer advertising for a roommate states matter-of-factly, WANTED: MALE TO SHARE RUSTIC 75-ACRE FARM W/STABLE AND LAKES...
...Lincoln was a prominent railroad lawyer in 1860, but he campaigned for the White House as the simple Midwestern rail-splitter. And his last moments were spent watching a play, Our American Cousin, in which an unsophisticated rustic journeys to Britain, where he gets the better of his highfalutin relatives...
...tributary of the Ganges. As we sipped to the rhythmic whirl of prayer wheels, I in my all-cotton, breathable Sahib Gear[TM] Punting Pants, Jan in her wind-resistant Amelia Earhart Aviator's Bra, we couldn't help noticing the elegant saffron robe that enveloped our host. The rustic fabric, simple and unfussy, draped beautifully--perfect, as Jan remarked to his holiness, for curtains...
...notoriously, the most faked artist of the 19th century. Corot painted 3,000 pictures, the saying went, of which 10,000 have been sold in America. His late work in particular--those silvery, atmospheric nymph-and-willow scenes like Memory of Mortefontaine, 1864, elegiac in tone and populated by rustic figures who descended from Claude Lorrain's shepherdesses--fetched record prices at a time when Impressionism still seemed rather daring to most Americans, and painting posthumous versions of them became quite an industry...
Corot's small oils of subjects like the view from the Pincio across Santa Trinita del Monte and the panorama of Rome below, and his studies of rustic places like Civita Castellana, were never meant to be shown in public. Until 1849 none were. They were intended solely as preparations for larger studio compositions, but these rarely have the elan and directness of his first insights. For him they were triggers of memory. "After my excursions," he wrote, "I invite Nature to come and spend a few days at home with me; brush in hand, I hunt for nuts...