Nonetheless, village life continues and vestiges of the fabulous past remain - including the local wine.
Brian Medhurst, church treasurer, said the community cinema was "becoming a feature of village life".
Village life is often hard for people of low caste, women and members of religious or other minorities.
The couple were members of the local over-60s group and the Haile Parochial Church Council, and were heavily involved in village life.
The book's description of the texture of village life will also help people to understand the subtleties that usually escape Western headlines about Darfur.
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Many rural residents may resent new homes disturbing traditional village life.
As guests of the custom-tour organizer Shakti Himalaya, we are ensconced in the heart of village life but with plumbing, (occasional) hot water, and (balky) electricity.
People gather to sip drinks in 1950s-style cafes, eat mango with sticky rice and pose for photos in front of murals depicting idyllic scenes of Thai village life.
There's a strong case against the whole project if you value the quiet, traditional village life in the Chilterns, but it looks a rather attractive option further up the line.
In the film, you really depict village life where people gossip and when you don't have but so many people around, that gossip can be very harmful because you lose your community.
For anyone numbed by the impersonal nature of modern Chinese apartment blocks or the frenzied pace of urban China, the earth buildings are enchanting reminders of communal village life and the ancient rhythms of the agrarian southeast.
Ethnic-Fijian aspirants living on the fringes of Suva, praying for an escape from the tedium of village life, saw in Mr Speight's putsch the promise of patronage and the chance to get rich in a state run by their own kind.
Female pensioners at age 65 in the Somerset village have a life expectancy of 91.6 years.
He said the new homes would also help bring new life to the village.
But for many other hutong, the future of their slow-paced, village-like way of life hangs precariously in the balance.
Mr Barber's long-term partner Donna Rogers said he had lived in the village for most of his life.
However, with the site up for sale, she said villagers hoped a developer might breathe new life into the village.
For several years she lived in an Italian village, leading a simple life and cultivating a garden: an idyll familiar today.
This one starts in Paris with Tom, an American artist played by Mr. Duchovny, recalling his life in the Village at the age of 14.
The Linden Centre seeks to immerse visitors in rituals of everyday life in the village and let them experience age-old traditions rarely practiced in contemporary China.
Giggs left behind the glitz years ago for a quieter life in the village of Worsley near Manchester with partner Stacey Cooke and their two children.
Local people usually have a better knowledge of local ecological conditions than experts in faraway capitals, as well as a direct interest in improving the quality of life in their village.
Meanwhile she makes riches out of everything to hand: from the life of the village, its craftsmen and labourers, to the poor weavers of nearby Carlisle, and so on out to the world of books and literary and philosophical societies, all set against the Cumbrian landscape with its Celtic and Roman remains and discoveries of an even stranger fossilised past.
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Ismaiel also tells his own story: of life in a remote village and hunger for reading, of student years in Teheran and political activism, and then later the acceptance of exile.
Get a feel for Yi minority life in a Qing Dynasty village before it disappears.
Rasputin's early life in a small Siberian village is skipped over with indecent haste.
Community life in Cherche, a village 80 miles south of Lvov, is strong.
The track is featured on his latest album Joko, a musical journey from life in his parents' village to his collaborations with western artists including Gabriel, Sting and Fugee Wyclef Jean.
In short, daily life in a hardscrabble farming village in Szechuan province is a world away from the Shanghai Nanjing Road ritzy shopping street or even an old, walled neighborhood in Harbin, a crossroad of many cultures in northeastern China.
During interludes, the women playfully mime vignettes reflecting life in a farm or fishing village, including treading on roof tiles, unrolling a mat, catching a mouse or tying herrings.
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