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...wait: six months, only because they refuse to book any further), is so sincere. The problem is not an entirely new one. The earliest monasteries were founded in the 4th century in the Egyptian desert. As Christianity became legalized and then haute, the Desert Fathers and Mothers found themselves overrun by hipsters from Alexandria and Rome. Father Robert of New Camaldoli, where the spare rooms offer a heart-stopping view of the Pacific--for $30 a night--can relate. A hard call? "Sometimes," he sighs, "the first question is about the pool or the tennis courts...
...died at the family ranch in Tucson, AZ, and not in Santa Barbara, CA, as reporters initially had been led to believe. Baker said he misled reporters to protect Sir Paul and the couple's four children. "If I had said where she died, [the ranch] would have been overrun straight away, and they needed time, because of their grief," he said. "Morally, I have done nothing wrong, and legally I have done nothing wrong," Baker said. "I am just trying to keep this family together...
However, most agree that the law school libraryis not a private good overrun by undergraduates...
...mulched their first garden with bales of straw they found in the barn, but the straw was loaded with seed, "so we had shoulder-high weeds in no time," says Rice. Their attempt at a two-acre wildflower meadow--the current planting of choice for exurban sophisticates--was also overrun by native grasses. A Japanese beetle infestation led them to buy traps that attract the insects with a sexual scent. Such traps work well in suburban backyards, but on a farm they work too well. "We filled garbage bags with the bastards," says Rice. Finally, they asked a neighboring farmer...
...video "The Way Things Go," in the "Sausage Series" the artists remove human presence and distort scale, producing a world of crude cinematic maquettes overrun by cigarette-butt villagers and sausage-mobiles. In "The Carpet Shop" a group of cornichons inspect piles of thinly-sliced processed meat doubling as Persian carpets with fat-swirl designs and olive-chunk embroidery. Hardly just playing with their food, in these photographs Fischli and Weiss provide a wry social critique, probing the banality and vulgarity of a middle-class Swiss breakfast--an insult to American anti-cholesterol culture. Yet, at the same time their...