Word: ruralism
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...Haydenville, Massachusetts, Barbara Allen and Robin Juris are providing their biological children Hannah, 7, and Cody, 3, with the rural environment lacking in their former home in Oakland, California. They inseminated each other using the sperm of casual friends and took extensive, though not uncommon, legal precautions to avoid facing a custody dispute. "In our hearts we trusted these men," says Allen, "but we also wrote up a contract." The children have met their biological fathers; that word, however, is never used. Says Allen: "They are donors. They don't have a role that would approximate the real role...
...times in sessions lasting two to three days. Ushered through on separate flights so they would not be recognized, the delegates were escorted at high speed by the Norwegian police to rendezvous points in and outside the capital. In January it was a wood-paneled 19th century rural estate, later a hotel near one of the capital's busiest intersections, a rural farmhouse and even the private residence of Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst. Holst's wife Marianne Heiberg was the leader of the Norwegian project study of the occupied territories and, along with her husband, became a key figure...
...region's reputation as a haven has also led it to harbor right-wing cliques and go-it-alone extremists. The mercenary periodical Soldier of Fortune is published in Boulder. And such rural backwaters as Hayden Lake, Idaho, are headquarters to sundry survivalists, skinheads and supremacist groups like the White Aryan Nation...
...clash of cultures erupted last November when Colorado unexpectedly passed Amendment 2, a ballot initiative aimed at outlawing ordinances protecting homosexuals against discrimination. The measure -- which is in abeyance while awaiting a Colorado Supreme Court ruling -- was strongly supported by voters in the rural counties and the Front Range suburbs, and just as conspicuously opposed by the urban voters of Denver, Boulder and Aspen, where so many of the newcomers dwell...
...most memorable is Leete, which begins in darkness with an amatory grope in a formal garden and ends in darkness as a new bride goes off to her rough-hewn, rural marriage bed. This journey is made by a daughter of a highborn member of Parliament to avoid being a pawn in political maneuverings by her father (played with poignancy and ruthlessness by artistic director Newton). She rejects a lord in favor of the family gardener, a sweet-natured man whose heart belongs, hopelessly, to her sister-in-law. The deliberately oblique text may frustrate audiences who want to know...