Word: rustication
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Evans, the neighbor, said she first heard rumors about the proposed expansion three days before she closed on her house this past August. She thought she was purchasing views of a rustic landscape, but if the arboretum’s plans go through she will be directly across from a fenced-off nursery...
...dirty little stories wouldn’t be much use to indie rock if they didn’t make good songs, and Her Majesty is full of those. The poisonous smirk of “Los Angeles, I’m Yours,” the rustic daze of “As I Rise” and the surprisingly straightforward “Billy Liar” all prove that the Decemberists have considerable range. Meloy and his bandmates might have been born a few centuries too late, but we’re lucky to have these faux...
...Village life might be rustic, but Purser is hardly deprived. The compound he shares with his daughter, Polly, 29, who is a designer for the firm, rambles like a Sultan's palace, landscaped with pools and pavilions and tended by a large retinue of servants. If there are any in Tembi opposed to the rule of its high-minded foreign potentate, they keep it to themselves. One of the company's foremen, a Tembi native called Daud Subroto, has worked for Purser for seven years. "Before, people in Tembi were only farmers. Now they have good jobs," he says...
This time around, however, they have taken a different marketing tack. Gone is the secrecy that enshrouded their first project. Carefree Cove is billed--front and center--as a lesbian and gay community. But its promise of upscale rustic living might be too pricey for some. Homes start at $200,000. Still, Razete is confident that she has got another hit on her hands. "The country is ready for this now," she says. And so too is a whole new generation of gay adults...
...impossible to feel for these people when they are beset by their many, mostly minor, tragedies. It's hard even to feel sorry for poor Hasina when she gets so little sympathy from her creator: Ali leaves her story unexplained and incomplete. Hasina, too, is a stereotype, the innocent rustic who goes to the city to find love and happiness but is exploited and degraded by rapacious urban men. And since it follows that clichés can only talk in clichés, Ali's characters spout the requisite quirky homilies: "A blind uncle is better than no uncle...