Word: commune
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...gourmet foods are chic, Ben & Jerry's has tried to create an image of simple, down-home wholesomeness. Instead of being decorated with a map of Scandinavia, Ben & Jerry's cartons show a picture of the two be spectacled, bushy-haired owners, who look like refugees from a '60s commune. Pals since they were in high school in Merrick, N.Y., Cohen and Greenfield decided in 1977 that making ice cream would be more fun than what they were doing. Having failed to get into medical school, Greenfield was then a lab technician in North Carolina, and Cohen was a pottery...
Adorned in a flowing blue robe and matching skullcap, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh stepped out of a Portland courthouse last week into one of his sect's 93 Rolls-Royces and was whisked to the airport. After a quick wave and a bow to disciples from his 1,300-member commune, the guru, who had lived in the U.S. since 1981, boarded a chartered airplane and departed for his native India. Unless he gets written permission from the U.S. Attorney General, he will not be allowed to visit the U.S. for five years. Said the Bhagwan: "I never want to return...
...sham marriages to help foreign disciples join him. He was fined $400,000, received a ten-year suspended sentence and agreed to leave the country. Seven of his disciples still face federal and state charges. The guru's followers, who had virtually taken over a small town near the commune, voted this month to change the name of the site from Rajneesh back to the earlier one, Antelope...
Having grown up in isolation with her father on a secluded island which was once the site of a 1960s commune of which Jack was a part, Rose has had very little contact with the world besides her father and the man who delivers her flowers (she has a deep interest in planting and studying botany). She is perfectly satisfied with this situation, but when her father becomes ill and they realize that he is dying, Jack decides to bring home his lover (Catherine Keener, Being John Malkovich) and her two sons to live with them...
From the ruins of a Vietnam-era commune, Jack Slavin (Daniel Day-Lewis) has built a Hobbitish house for himself and his daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). The place is their bomb-shelter refuge from the modern world Jack fiercely resists. Now it is 1986, Jack is dying, and he decides that Rose, 16, needs a family to wean her from the isolation that has nurtured her. He invites his sometime lover Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her two teenage sons to come live with them. The place was never quite Utopia, but it will soon become hell...