Reykjavík Grapevine - 24.08.2012, Page 1

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× 2012
August 24
— September 6
Issue 13
RVK Homegrown's
hazy fight
Ayn Rand?
Really?
Star-crossed lovers: Relations between occupying troops and Icelandic women were harshly condemned.
Trippin' in THE
BLACK DESERT
Tony Bennett vs.
Sudden Weather
Change!
We throw a real
sausagefest!
For Icelanders, World War II was an agent of massive
social change, rushing their hitherto isolated island
into modernity, permanently altering the nation's
lifestyles and economic realities. Yet no military
conflict occurred on Icelandic soil; while the rest of
Europe burned, di‘erent fires were started in Iceland
as tens of thousands of soldiers in the prime of their
youth came in contact with the provincial populace.
More on this surreal situation and its aftermath on
Page 26.
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