Word: rustication
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...York restaurant and supplemented it with large, noisy, open, plain dining rooms more reminiscent of the Greyhound Bus Station than Sunday dinner at the D'Arminio's. Thankfully, no attempt was made to make a month-old building look 100 years old by using plastic bricks, fiberglass rustic beams, and electric candles...
...interval of a "falling" fourth; the interval, repeated often, becomes a basis of the principal theme. The Scherzo is a study in contrast between the rough Landler, or peasant waltz, and the lyrical middle section. This movement was perfect: Mr. Mehta and the orchestra executed the transition between the rustic dances and smooth passages with full vitality and gusto--and absolute precision...
...meet Pierre first -- out of a job, low on money, bored, restless, anomie personified. He calls on his friend Paul for help on this TV project. Just as Pierre is city-loving, and cynical. Paul is sweet, sincere, imaginative and rustic...
...Secretary Dick Dougherty and South Dakota Lieutenant Governor Bill Dougherty both favored dumping Eagleton. Fred Dutton, author of Changing Sources of Power: American Politics in the 1970's and McGovern's most thoughtful political adviser, was adamantly anti-Eagleton. An almost Mafia-like atmosphere developed amid the rustic charms of McGovern's retreat, in strange contrast to the serene images of the candidate canoeing and playing with Atticus, his Labrador retriever...
...notes were articulated in a smooth, 'lyrical' way. Thus the movement was robbed of both the intended contrast of the alternating elements, and the overall unity inherent in similarly-executed repetitions of the rhythmic ostinato figure. The scherzo, marked presto, was played too slowly to bring off the abundant rustic humor, while the trio, undoubtedly intended to be the lightest moment in this quartet, became a curiously contemplative "solo" for first violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi. In the final movement, Haydn employs the admittedly questionable device of recapitulating in the parallel major what had been rather serious material in G minor...