Word: rustication
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Woodland West had the unmistakable development look, but its houses were spaced irregularly, and had variations of external finish that enabled them to be labeled ranch, colonial, rustic or modern...
...dollars into a series of projects supporting the currently unfashionable kind of art that he and a great many other people admire. He set up a foundation for artists, composers and writers, who are invited to spend up to six months at the foundation estate in Los Angeles' Rustic Canyon. He founded the Huntington Hartford Theatre in Hollywood. He is building his own art gallery in Manhattan. Even Paradise Island is intended to become a place for "cultural enjoyment - no automobiles, no roulette wheels, no honky-tonks...
...Thompson's music, scored for a chamber orchestra, organ, chorus, and the figures of the Pageant, is unadorned, often almost spare, and calmly joyous. A bustlingly rustic fugue hurries the shepherds towards Bethlehem, where they celebrate the Nativity in an awkward but loving dance. Mary croons a soft lullaby, and Joseph sleeps contentedly by her side. Simeon prophesies the wonders of the Messiah's coming; a boys' choir sings an awestruck Noel, the chorus a mighty, antiphonal Alleluia...
...rustic Harvard Square is off to slow start. Although Saturday crowds made many merchants smile, things seem to have settled down this week. Students are thinking about going home, rationalized Bob Slate. Or may be they're hoping to get gifts, and not give them, said another manager...
...PROVINCIAL visiting The City is likely buy his Cue or New Yorker find "what's happening", eat at a few restaurants, see some shows, look at hieroglyphics in the Metropolitan Museum and return to his rustic existence with some small change and a reinforced conviction that New York is indeed nice to visit but no place to live. This unfortunate pattern results largely from the fact that what is most interesting in New York is often most difficult to find, and the knack of living both well and at the same time inexpensively in this most varied and wealthy...