Word: rustication
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...plot is complicated and overgrown, including both sighing lovers and slapstick comedy, the latter provided by rustic laborers rehearsing an opera within this opera. The main weak point is the tendency for overlong recitative passages that stretch audience interest thin at times. The singing dialogues, however, especially the rustics', are splendid. In the end, after all the trials and tribulations of True Romance, there is a grand reconciliation when the status quo is restored. Good-humor and realism prevail over magic. At this point, the rustic laborers' comic rendition of the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe is not only...
...Unwary rustic swain tread path unsure...
...show evolves in play-within-a-play fashion from an opening square dance, and the book, lyrics, music and choreography mesh delightfully to create the mood of innocent bawdry and rustic high jinks. A handsome highwayman, Jamie Lockhart (Barrie Bostwick), wrests a rich plantation owner's purse from some of his robber competitors and restores it to him. The grateful recipient (Stephen Vinovich) invites Jamie home to meet his daughter Rosamund...
...canyon tower over what used to be a pleasant trout stream sparkling in the depths below. The canyon was not unspoiled, but neither was it ruined by money: the big, Aspen-style condominiums had been kept away, and most of the 1,400 dwellings along the river were rustic cabins whose owners often were retirees...
Years later, after graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law, Kirbo became one of the courtroom stars himself. Now he was the celebrated trial attorney playing to audiences hanging from the rafters. A gentle man with an understated, rustic style, Kirbo developed a reputation for becoming stern with witnesses who he thought were lying; his audiences looked for such moments. He defended blacks and whites alike, and he emphasized to the juries the need to be fair. Like his boyhood models, he studied his witnesses and jurors closely, searching for any clue that might aid his case...