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...March there are some spooky parallels. Both are bookworms and avid letter writers. Both grew up in a close family that lived in a house with no electricity or running water. The Marches of Concord, Massachusetts, were transcendentalists; the Horowitzes of Petaluma were part of an agreeable commune. Winona (named for the Minnesota town in which she was born) had Timothy Leary as her godfather. Her father is an archivist of counterculture magazines and books and runs a small publishing company...
Sometimes the script is just plain cheesy. Alderaan is depicted as a hippie commune where hunting is forbidden unless ecologically appropriate. For goodness sake, no matter what kind of a threat the Empire is, the people of Alderaan would never dream of taking up arms to defend themselves. Is it a wonder, with this PC weirdness, that Leia joined the rebel alliance? They don't do her character any favors either, but at least the script makes clear all the ambiguities between her and Luke and Han which were so baffling to me as a child...
...psychiatric hospital and prevail as a writer. The daughter of an economics professor, she grew up in Cambridge, a privileged setting where going to college seemed inevitable. But Kaysen, who hated school, would have none of it. "I was very sulky and tantrumy," she says. She lived in a commune in Cambridge after graduating from high school...
Standards have changed, and Clinton helped change them. He went whole hog into touchy-feely, talk-show politics, even held a confessional commune with his staff and Cabinet. It was uncomfortably logical then when someone dared to ask what kind of underwear he wore -- and worse to hear his answer...
...accomplishes more for the University than simply feeding faculty in an exclusive setting (although it does that quite well indeed). The Club is the gastronomic link that brings together Harvard's greatest minds under one roof, providing a venue for members of Harvard's diverse galaxy of faculties to commune and cross-pollinate their ideas as they partake of tender victuals...