Word: enlightened
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Attending a Dar Williams concert is more than simply listening to incredible music, it's participating in "The Dar Experience." Dar weaves together intelligence, quirkiness, humor and lush melodic arrangements that entertain and enlighten. Only she could craft pop songs out of a failed 17th-century Polish messianic cult, psychotherapy or the anti-Vietnam activities of former priest Daniel Berrigan. Her radio-ready single, "What do you Love More than Love" skews off center with its focus on Buddhism. Even Dar recognizes the unlikely nature of her topics, joking between songs...
...1870s, Poland's most beloved actress, Maryna Zalezowska, abandons the stage and sets off, with a small entourage of admirers in tow, to found a vaguely utopian community in Southern California. No one understands why the acclaimed diva has decided on this strange mission, and she chooses not to enlighten them: "I don't owe anyone an explanation." The experiment, set up on 47 acres near the village of Anaheim, soon convinces the 14 emigres involved that successful farming and the contemplative life are incompatible. Leaving her husband behind to settle the debts, Zalezowska goes to San Francisco, polishes...