Word: rusticity
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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...
...changed course, abandoning Purism, as he called it, for something more robust and sculptural. His spartan, lightweight architecture turned rustic, with heavy walls of brick and fieldstone and splashes of bright color. He discovered the potential of reinforced concrete and made it his own, leaving the material crudely unfinished, inside and out, the marks of wooden formwork plainly visible. Concrete allowed Le Corbusier to explore unusual shapes. The billowing roof of the chapel at Ronchamp, France, resembles a nun's wimple; the studios of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard push out of the building like huge cellos...
...righteous, even smug. There was once something of the wicked kid in Redford's screen character, and one fondly imagined that he would someday grow up to be, if not a dirty old man, then a subversive and obstreperous one. Certainly we never guessed he'd end up a rustic bore like Tom Booker...
...your stay at Crystal Mountain or move to the Homestead, another top-of-the-line family facility in nearby Glen Arbor. If you're primarily interested in taking in more performances, you can book a room in the guest lodges at Interlochen. Keep in mind, however, that the fairly rustic accommodations have no air-conditioning or television.) With 30 miles of lakeshore and massive dunes towering hundreds of feet over Lake Michigan, Sleeping Bear is a sight you don't want to miss. Kids will love the Dune Climb, a 350-ft. mountain of sand, and the Pierce Stocking Drive...
Williamstown, home to Williams College, is aperfect destination for students who are curiousabout the rustic college setting they missed outon by attending Harvard. The town provides exactlywhat Cambridge lacks--tranquility and isolation.The B&Bs are cozy, and if you cam rouse yourselfout of bed, the art museum at Williams houses awonderful collection...