Word: beatnik
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...Beatnik Bazaar trades in eccentricity (23 Main Road, tel: (27-79) 519 4979); the shop's philosophy is to support local designers who craft retro-inspired objects including coffee sets, cushions, jewelry and ceramics...
...summary of the ice cream and the park itself: “I spared no expense.” Schrader instead delivered this as a vaudevillian punch line, holding out his cane and smiling as the stage went black.The energetic, ad-libbing cast makes the show a joy. Doomsaying beatnik Ian Malcolm (Mason Ross) punctuated pauses by jiggling his head and muttering inaudibly. Lex (April Camlin), the hyper-annoying computer nerd, carried her character’s emotional outbursts to the limits of human expression. Robert Muldoon (Connor Kizer) played every scene with a Sean Connery-ish accent...
...funny encyclopedia on the film industry in the 1940s. Though he occasionally lapsed into salesmanship through brilliantly subtle swami glamour (Henry V, the Ingrid Bergman cover story), Agee would be wisely remembered for quick biographies and reviews, particularly about such happy garbage as June Haver musicals and an early beatnik satire Salome Where She Danced, where his taste didn't have to outrun a superabundant writing talent...
Long before ''cool'' got hot and poetry became the latest MTV fad, Rickie Lee Jones was striking beatnik poses on album covers and writing jazzy rhymes about a hipster demimonde of oddballs, outcasts and free spirits. On albums like Pirates (1981) and Flying Cowboys (1989), Jones' street-wise sensibility was balanced and embellished by her increasingly sophisticated flair for elaborate instrumental settings. Then, two years ago, she switched gears and released Pop Pop, a glossy collection of covers and old standards that showed a heartfelt respect for tradition but lacked the offbeat charm of her own material. On Traffic from...
...first European designers to create ready-to-wear in the mid-1960s and famously brought street fashion to haute couture, showing such basic clothes as peacoats, biker jackets and beatnik-inspired looks on his high fashion runway. In 1966 he introduced his famous Le Smoking and became the first designer to dress women in silhouettes traditionally reserved for men. Paloma Picasso, a longtime friend and client, once said: "He put trousers into a woman's wardrobe and made our lives easier." Saint Laurent always claimed he not only wanted to make women look beautiful, but also to give them confidence...