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  • Stephen Holden on the founders of the Black Bear Ranch as depicted in Commune: "However weatherbeaten they appear, they still have a light in their eyes, and they exude the hardy spirit of pioneers who are older and wiser but unbowed."

    GreenCine Daily: Docs, 11/5. 2006

  • Cam Chinh Commune is no longer a secluded outback town.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • The two have recently contributed a collection of T-shirts, cushions, wallpaper and accessories for the new French label Commune de Paris, 1871.

    Lego Table 2009

  • The president of the Commune was a liberal clergyman, Abbé Mulot, who was fulsome in his praise for the project.

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • Instead, it's a spot that might be called the Commune of The Great Pumpkin.

    One hour out: Beijing Beyond 2008

  • [473] Aristotle, Polit.lib. 3, cap. 4, calls Commune bonum, Polybius lib. 6, optabilem et selectum statum, that country is free from melancholy; as it was in Italy in the time of Augustus, now in China, now in many other flourishing kingdoms of Europe.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For the Duhems, the Commune was a paradigm of anarchy and irreligion.

    Pierre Duhem Ariew, Roger 2007

  • "The Commune was to be a working, not a parliamentary body, executive and legislative at the same time."

    Archive 2006-07-01 Abhay N 2006

  • As for the Commune, which is about to die out, it is the last manifestation of the Middle Ages.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

  • Poor France, who will never free herself from the Middle Ages! who labors along in the Gothic idea of the Commune, which is nothing else than the Roman municipality.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

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