Word: communing
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...city living in fear. Yet it is better for Gerry Conlon to live here than Belfast, or "this God-forsaken place," as both his father and aunt put it. Gerry has been sent to London to clean up, but instead he and a friend discover commune life, drugs, and petty theivery. He is a ragged, vain, young man, who uses the word "fuck" indiscriminately and consistently...
...with their lavishly winged, lushly adorned angels + acting as God's attendants but reigning supreme over earthly citizens. In building a new, democratic model of church life, the Protestant reformers not only swept away the papal bureaucracy of Bishops and Cardinals, but the angelic hierarchy as well. Man could commune directly with his Maker without a winged messenger intervening. And God for his part could move the planets through the skies without calling upon angels to push them...
...Sweet Bunch" at 9 p.m. The diary of the lifeand death of a group of young misfits who turn anold mansion into a commune, while under thesurveillance of an undefined authoritarian group.The film involves four amoral heroes consciouslyabandoning social rites, while seeking thegreatest possible freedom, companionship and truelove, eventually choosing their own means ofdeath...
Solar power was an exotic new technology when John Schaeffer graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972 and helped start a primitive commune in the woods of northern California. But he was a tinkerer, and in his spare time he managed to rig up a solar-powered television set so he wouldn't have to miss his favorite shows. Soon Schaeffer was selling solar panels to his fellow urban refugees at a time when, he recalls, "only dope growers could afford them." Today Schaeffer's beard has become a white goatee, and his Real Goods Trading...
...such a thing before, and last weekend Gergen said he would consider reversing the order. The Clinton White House also had its end-run press strategy, whereby Clinton used talk shows and electronic town meetings, rather than dreary old press conferences with the dreary old national press corps, to commune with the people. To aggravate things further, Stephanopoulos & Co. shook up the White House travel office, which, however mismanaged, did provide first-class creature comforts -- at first-class prices -- to reporters on presidential trips...