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...make some Americans claustrophobic, but cross-cultural comparison might also remind them to be grateful for what they have It might encourage them, as well, to shift their perspectives outward a little, to conceive of themselves less as isolated units more as communities. It is not the individual hut that has cultural force and meaning, but the village as a whole, tl sum of our larger arrangements as a tribe. -By Lance Morrow
...joke that there were not enough memorabilia from Ford's brief 30 months in office to hang on four walls. That is hardly a problem. The political odyssey of the Eagle Scout from Grand Rapids is represented by full-size replicas of the Oval Office and the Quonset hut from which he ran his first, successful, campaign for Congress in 1948. Among the treasures: Ford's typed pardon of Predecessor Richard Nixon, an aide's memo suggesting that he not keep Alexander Haig as Chief of Staff, and a copy of the Declaration of Independence made...
...shopping for supplies; they wonder if this behavior is not reproachful, a way of setting them apart from the life of the village. The white wife cannot join the women in their daily routines, and her husband is powerless, "an architect lying on a bed in a mud hut, a man without a vehicle...
...lake district, the Karasiewiczes prefer to spend their 3½ weeks of vacation tending a 3,200-sq.-ft. plot of land, ten minutes away from their apartment, which they received free as factory workers. Says Krzysztof: "We can plant vegetables and flowers, and there is a small hut on the land where we can rest...
...waters of a tropical bay. At first they swim in their underwear. Later, they shuck their clothes. They are growing up. Still later, they learn to make love. For the next 20 minutes, all they do is couple, on the beach, in the mango grove, behind the bamboo hut, and everywhere. They are almost adults now. The movie end when they intentionally overdose on red berries, the Fijian equivalent of Miltown. Totally grown...