Word: rusticated
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...According to Billy, the student photographer sneaked into Cabot’s serving area one night and replaced the frame’s rustic image—it used to be a pitcher of water—with Billy’s demonic likeness...
...German dirndl while Ännchen, in the same scene, wears a form-fitting black blazer and a pair of department store jeans. The chorus of village maidens, bodices laced up and hair braided like so many St. Pauli Girls, drink lager out of disposable frat-party cups. A rustic wooden barrel that looks like it might have been used in the original 1821 production at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, shares space on the stage with a blue plastic trash bin that looks like it might have been purchased at the Home Depot in West Roxbury, Mass. The period...
...when Wein is able to soften brute force and add definition to the abstract that the beauty of his genius is unmistakably evident. With “Man with Plow,” Wein simplifies, so that the man in the sculpture lacks incredible muscularity, and instead exudes a rustic, humanistic charm. With downcast eyes, the man and his plow seem almost coy. This same coyness is paired with broad, vibrant strokes of color in “Geisha No. 2,” an abstract painting that is arguably one of Wein’s most striking works...
...again,” said Frederick, allowing his hair to fall across his face, creating, thought he, a brooding effect. “As are we all.”“Surely not, sir,” said Roxanna, with a feeling heave of her rustic bosom. “The air and sunshine are so clear and fortifying here. The whole outdoors smells only of pleasant things.”“Ah, Roxanna,” Frederick said. “It is not merely to our physical state that I refer. The mental evanescence...
...With its orange walls and rustic interior, the small pub in the former working-class district of Lichtenberg may look like most other bars in the neighborhood, but where other establishments might sport a deer head, Zur Firma has a surveillance camera. Other appointments include old wiretap devices and what appears to be a 1970s interrogation room. And then there's the venue's name, which translates as "The Firm," a colloquial name for the Stasi used in the old East Germany. And also its slogan: "Come to our place - or we'll come to yours...