Word: communale
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Sensing this surge toward storefront living, some landlords have bought and remodeled storefront blocks, and are now renting to eager tenants. In one South Side area, Developer John Podmajersky has constructed a communal courtyard surrounded by arched stucco walls. Here storefront tenants cultivate vegetables, and hold an annual summer art exhibit...
...continued to flicker in isolated spots, the French military expropriated by decree extensive tracts of land, which they then gave to a handful of French and Vietnamese collaborators. Peasants returning home after the resistance had ended discovered that they no longer owned their land; village leaders found that the communal lands, which had provided for the young and the sick and the poor, now belonged to outsiders. As the French widened their control over Vietnam and cleared new lands for cultivation, they continued the expropriation by decree. By 1931 the French had stolen and redistributed over two-fifths...
PEASANTS IN traditional Vietnam never had been particularly wealthy, but they had owned their own land, produced their own food, and been guaranteed a measure of security by the village communal lands. The French stole their land and brutally forced them into a tenuous life on the edge of existence. To pay the frightful rents and skyrocketing taxes, peasants were forced to borrow from their landlords--at interest rates ranging from 100 to 3650 per cent. The peasant had to sell everything he owned--his water buffalo, old heirlooms, sometimes even his children--to keep his head above water...
...Catholics' chill and poignant ending, the abbot capitulates to Rome, then has to repair the shattered faith of his charges by leading them in prayer, a communal task he has long avoided. He knows, as he begins to pray, that the action will plunge his bleak but compassionate soul into an endless spiritual void. As the camera closes in on Howard's tortured, searching eyes, it captures all the anguish of the dark night of the Soul...
...starving anymore," Joe says, now that they are playing regularly. The five split about $900 at the end of a busy week, most of which is gobbled up by food expenses. They eat separately, since their early effort at communal cooking failed, partly because Buzz Quarles, the lead guitar, is a vegetarian. For equipment, they usually all give evenly, though keyboard artist Glen Bickle borrowed heavily to buy his new moog synthesizer...