Word: communing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Halprin drew on their own lives for some of the dialogue, as Antonioni apparently encouraged them to do, then they are in part responsible for character inconsistencies that cloud the basic narrative thrust of the film. A twenty-one-year-old carpenter from Mel Lyman's Fort Hill commune, allowed to fuse his beliefs with his part, is not going to esndorse a set of volatile character traits compatible with buying guns and menacing policemen ( Avatar, remember, endorsed Robert Kennedy's candidacy as the hope of the Nation). Less important but equally troubling, it is to be hoped that...
Bogside lived as a commune during the attacks. No doors were locked, and people ate and slept together. There was even competition among some of the older women to see who would house the foreign students...
Mark Frechette, who is a carpenter in Boston's Avatar commune, is not quite as painful to watch in the male lead. He is most believable when he is pissed off, and he is supposed to be pissed off as the movie opens. But he forgets to shed his toughness with the rest of his defensive facade when he enters the desert to love. We know he is cool and daring only after he lists all the nifty, anti-establishment pranks he has pulled...
Four Chinese peasants in Kweiyang Commune 18 miles north of Hong Kong were condemned to a total of 50 years of "labor reform" last week for showing disrespect for Chairman Mao Tsetung. In fact, a three-year-old boy, some roosting hens and a clutch of cockroaches were responsible for three of the crimes. No matter, the men were convicted, and their sentences were announced by the commune chairman, a senior army officer. One 30-year-old farmer drew ten years of "labor reform," which means hard labor, for permitting his three-year-old son to tear up a picture...
...Like Referees. In the book, the Martian established a sort of religious colony called a "family" or "nest"-not unlike the commune that Manson led at a deserted movie-location ranch. Inhabitants of the novel's nest practiced free sexual sharing and group nudity, very much the way life was lived at Manson's ranch. In book and in life, the complete abandonment of personal ego to the all-powerful leader, usually through sexual submissiveness, was essential. The fictional Smith and the real Manson apparently shared a belief in their oneness with God. "Among Martians," Heinlein...