Word: rusticity
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...light-filled space and pleasing simplicity with, as Neutra put it, "soul-refreshing" variations. His style and convictions were strong enough to adapt themselves to the residents, the climates and particularly the landscapes of his projects. The Nesbitt House in Los Angeles (1942), for instance, has a decidedly rustic ambience. The vigorous textures of rough brick and redwood board and batten predominate. The hard, angular lines of the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs (1946) deliberately contrast with nature. The spindly steel columns, fragile-looking window walls and beams that poke freely into the air are a reinterpretation of classic Japanese...
Ever since his defeat, just as Kirbo had predicted, Carter has resumed his rustic and provincial life in Plains, the tiny (pop. 651) crossroads town where his extraordinary journey to power had begun. Absorbed by his book, he has deliberately closed himself off from the rest of the world. In political terms, he has vanished so completely that he might almost never have existed. Shunned by his fellow Democrats, ignored by his successor, Carter has virtually become a nonperson, a President who never...
...Gold Coast does not have smog, or terrorists, or a socialist government. Real estate prices are not out of sight. So, as Maggy Scherer, a third-generation Californian, who with her husband Allan a few years ago sold their Beverly Hills home to move their 36 ponies to a rustic compound called La Chacra (latino Spanish for Little Farm), points out: "People are leaving France. They're leaving Italy. This is the place." Some concede that cosmopolitanism can go too far. When the band struck up the Star-Spangled Banner before a recent match, one woman demanded loudly: "Whose...
...Sears rejuvenate both a rustic pond and himself? Before these questions are answered, a number of odd events occur: a beloved family dog is shot through the heart; Sears' ally in the pollution case is wiped out, gangland style; an infant is accidentally abandoned by the side of a highway; Sears stumbles into a brief and mystifying homosexual tryst. Amid all this activity, Cheever's attention regularly shifts to other matters. A scene in a supermarket veers into a meditation on the historical importance of commerce: "It is because our fortresses were meant to be impregnable that...
...club's vast sporting gear and use the club's two cabins in Jaffrey and Jackson. N.H. Built in 1939 and 1949, respectively, by past club members, the cabins serve as starting points for many Harvard expeditions, as well as nearby escapes to beautiful and rustic simpicity Just an hour-and-a-half away, the Jaffrey cabin is nestled between lakes and hiking trails, while the Jackson cabin's position in the midst of the White Mountains is ideal for any skiing enthusiast...