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Article: The quiet side of Marrakech: a secluded Amanresort lies not far from the city's madding crowd. (Traveler's Notebook).
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- Town & Country
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Marrakech is once again Morocco's most sought-after city. It was, remember, hugely popular in the sixties and seventies, when it was known as the capital of hippiedom. (For verification, just listen to Crosby, Stills & Nash's 1969 recording of "Marrakesh Express," or rent the movie Hideous Kinky.) Real and faux bohemians of all stripes--including Talitha and Paul Getty and Yves Saint Laurent, who still has a house there--went for drugs and sex (and maybe for rock and roll too, although I doubt it; more likely they came for the richly flavored Moroccan food).
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