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...Center of the Earth, Jules Verne depicted the Snaefellsjökull volcano as the gateway to the belly of the world. Today, it stands as a dormant, ice-capped, exquisite backdrop to Hotel Budir, Iceland's newest boutique hotel. Built on the site of an old hippy commune which morphed into a quirky hotel in the '80s and burned down in 2001, the hotel's revamped interior melds sleek Scandinavian design with floral wallpaper, doilies and other eclectic granny favorites to create a place where you can pad around in your socks yet still feel stylish. Cloudlike beds, deep baths...
...over the forty or so radical students packing a corner of the room they have taken by force, but it is certainly not a dean. They wait eagerly and a little uneasily as several raise their hands, one standing tall, in a meeting Carlson now compares to the Paris Commune, “reinventing history from the moment...
...garbage. It read, “10 Simple Keys to a Happy Life.” Well! Maybe this would be worth reading after all! (I figured there was a chance, albeit small, that one of the keys to happiness would be dumping my thesis and joining a hippie commune.) I tore off the plastic and turned to page...
Absolute Friends bristles with that outrage. It is the story of Ted, a tall, genial, impressionable Englishman, and Sasha, a tiny, misshapen, brilliant, fiercely idealistic German. The two men meet for the first time as fire-breathing anarchists in a counterculture commune in Berlin in the 1960s and, improbably, become fast friends. The book's rhythm is that of their chance meetings. Over the years, Ted drifts into life as a minor diplomat, and a decade later, he re-encounters Sasha at an official reception. Now an East German functionary, Sasha proposes an intelligence operationsmuggling state secrets to the West...
...Mitterrand Library (1995) - a prestige project for which height restrictions didn't apply. There's a certain degree of irony in the fact that the proposal to raise the roofs of Paris comes not from greedy developers, but from the first leftist mayor Paris has had since the commune of 1871. A Socialist but no ideologue, Delanoë has appealed to the so-called Bobo set - the "bourgeois bohemians" - by promoting bicycles and buses, installing a sandy beach along the Seine in the summer and promising a more approachable and responsible city administration. He has become one of France...