A project called Digital Green, for instance, flourished only after Microsoft tried a "Farmer Idol" approach — a rather rustic take on the "American Idol" singing contest featuring local farmers.
He put a particularly effective spin on the play that Bottom and the other rustics put on in Act 3. It had so much fun, well-executed shtick that it was was to easy to forget that Britten made the scene just a little too long for its own good. .
In recent years, Bishop had changed her mind about being buried in Worcester, and asked to be interred in one of the rustic cemeteries on North Haven Island.
If Nikoi is beyond your budget, a less-expensive option is the eco-resort Loola (65-6764-6496; loola.net), 95 Singapore dollars per night) on Bintan, with its rustic bungalows on stilts over the water.
The restaurant, divided into two large dining rooms on either side of the seafood counter and kitchen, has a spacious, easy feeling to it, and just enough decorative pieces -- Oriental rugs on the wall, oversize rustic urns on the floor -- to suggest a country taverna without belaboring the point.
AN amusing drawing by Isaak van Ostade reveals the stock ingredients for a moralizing 17th-century Dutch genre scene: a rustic thatched house on one side; on the other, two drunken peasants, one spewing vomit, being mocked by children.
Mr. Foster's proposed legislation looked an odds-on bet to succeed until the descent of the rustic hordes on London's Hyde Park.
The rustic Classico on the Green (where Legends and Grill on the Green had been) offers less elaborate and complex but no less soundly cooked dishes than the original.
It looks angelic worn with tan gladiator sandals on city streets, and then it's all rustic charm on the beach with a straw hat.
This year, rents go from $1,000 a week for a rustic workshop on a farm to $15,000 for a house that is on a saltwater lagoon, sleeps 10 and has a private beach and dock.
