Made in the wake of Wayne's financially disastrous personal production, "The Alamo" (1960), "The Comancheros" plays it safe, casting Wayne as a Texas ranger who goes undercover to investigate arms merchants operating out of a sort of proto-fascist commune (a strange, promising idea that the movie never really develops).
With Roger Sterling off trying to coax his married mother of a daughter back from an upstate commune, Don takes that idea to Bert Cooper, who shoots him down and makes it clear that he doesn't want Don around, insisting that he doesn't need to save the agency because the agency is doing just fine.
It's also no surprise that so many have communed now around the idea that the manly man should be given his proper due.
As a homebody whose idea of communing with nature is to open the windows, I could never see the forest for the trees, or even the mushrooms for the pizza, which is why I went on a nature walk recently with a guy who knows all about trees and mushrooms.
But now that we are older and wiser, the idea of communes may be, for some, the democratic answer to how to afford aging -- to handpick the friends you want to live with and jump off the aging cliff Thelma and Louise-style.
On his show last Friday, Glenn Beck did something quite unusual for a guy who makes his living scaring people into thinking that America is on the road to communism -- he promoted an idea straight out of the Paris Commune of 1871, an idea considered by the Commune to be a necessary stepping stone in the transition from capitalism to socialism to communism.
The idea of the commune that would survive WW3 soon fell apart with various beatniks arguing about who would wash the dishes and how childcare duties would be divided, but on the upside, every summer since then, my family has spent July and August on this remote private slice of paradise which we have all to ourselves.
A major part of any large exhibition is about trying to make sense of the curatorial gambit, but this isn't so much a themed show as a loosely connected grouping of works based on the idea the audience communes with the artist via the artwork.
Christophe Mathez, deputy mayor of France's Les Rousses commune, said local officials had "no idea this operation would occur", the Associated Press news agency reports.
'The idea for lesbian-only communes soon spread all over the country there were lesbian feminist communes in the mountains, the forests, everywhere that lesbian feminists felt that they could get away from the patriarchy and start over again".
