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...future? On Bainbridge Island, Washington, 30 families dwell in a five-acre pedestrian village where doors are seldom locked, townspeople share cooking duties and even the children have their own rule-making committee. Based on an idea pioneered in Scandinavia, the Winslow CoHousing Group is a kind of commune gone condo that tries to merge the best elements of two very different styles of community life: the efficiency and fellowship of a collective with the privacy and equity of home ownership...
...teenagers' attention spans, are brief and swift. Only a few pages long, they jump from subject to subject and rush to feed us snippets of information from Tyler's life. Much of Shampoo Planet is about its protagonist's remembrances--of his carefree childhood on a British Columbia hippie commune, of his vacationto Europe, of his alcoholic, get-rich-quick stepfather, Dan. like the Chapters they comprise, they follow each other in rapid-fire bursts. But what chiefly propels the plot is the choice Tyler must make between his hometown girlfriend, Anna-Louise, and his European summer fling, Stephanie...
...playing today. It would have been nice if you would have told me you wanted to talk about this, and I'd have had all my facts with me." Shortly after this hapless performance, Perot announced that he plans to retreat from the spotlight for a while to commune with unnamed policy experts, as if he could acquire ideological direction off the shelf just like a business buying a state-of-the-art computer system...
...when the Cultural Revolution gripped China, a group of "Chairman Mao's True Soldiers" force Hsun-ching to join the Maoist movement and work in a commune. Ten years later, Hsun-Ching gains his freedom and returns home. Finding his mentor almost dead, Hsun-Ching embarks for America to complete the quest for the Laughing Sutra...
...those in Origins are dubbed "Spirits of the Night," "Spirits of the Gardens," "Spirits of the Sun" and "Spirits of the Forest," tastefully arranged in four big alchemist's bottles filled with leafy herbal stuff. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be any testers, so I was unable to commune with the spirits...