Word: rustication
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Intuition told me there had to be such a place. It sits along Highway 178 near Rocky Bottom, just shy of the North Carolina border. The Roadkill Grill is an outdoor barbecue pit on the property of Bob's Place, a rustic beer tavern where the Confederate flag flies proud and the "Hillbilly Poem" is stapled to an outside wall. It reads, "We're noted for our hard times and God's great creation. We're the people of the hillbilly nation." The hillbillies, it turns out, liked Bush, as did plenty of God-fearing family folk, party loyalists...
...also need to go over some pregame rituals, because you do some things up in the rustic backwaters of Ithaca that members of civilized society simply don't do. I know you'll be a little confused, being that Cambridge will be the first glimpse of a city you'll have seen since the summer, so I'm going to try and put this nice and simple so you can understand...
...woman imbued with cheer and curiosity, was his partner when they started out living under benches in their shop to save on rent. And she is his partner today in the good life, which is expensive but not lavish. The house at Jackson Hole is small, done in comfortable rustic sloppy. Chouinard seems a little ashamed of having so much, though he has less than he could have. He has no stocks, only a checking account. He admires the Native American potlatch ceremony, in which the host would give away everything he owned...
...Cuban music, before the revolution left many of the great artists of Ferrer's generation scraping to get by. Despite his skill, including a way of making the traditionally slow-moving ballads sparkle with life, Ferrer suddenly became an unwanted relic of the island's precommunist past. The rustic sound he loved so much held dwindling relevance to the sleek, popular sounds of modern Cuba. So in the early 1990s, having never acquired any renown beyond Cuban shores, he quit music in frustration and turned to shining shoes for a living, which earned him more money anyway...
Straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting, the rustic villages of western Mass. Are among the remaining outposts of small-town New England. Nestled in the rolling Berkshires, Greyhound serves Stockbridge, Williamstown and other towns in the area...