Word: trianon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offers the illusion of control, of nurturing something that won't run wild the minute it reaches adolescence. Those nostalgic for a simple, agrarian past can siphon the sense of virtue attached to the idea of a family farm, like Marie Antoinette tending her miniature dairy at the Petit Trianon. Grow a bushel of peas, and you have rooted your family in the American heartland...