Word: beatnik
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hoffmann, who called Hughes a beatnik, said Hughes was one of the few Harvard professors to publicly object...
Adopting the wardrobe of a beatnik and the eating habits of a monk, RUPERT MURDOCH is easing into a new phase of life. In the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, Murdoch, 68, reports that his updated look, featuring a preponderance of black, is due less to WENDI DENG, 32, his wife of three months, than to his sons. "I wanted to look like them," he says, "40 years younger." To that end, he has been visiting "some institute at UCLA--they've got me on a morning drink [of] fruit and soya powder" and exercising with a trainer who "tortures...
...full of bounce and bravery; the car-gnawing, train-wrecking giant is enthusiastically educable in his genially klutzy way. But the largest fun lies in the other characters: jut-jawed Kent Mansley, the funny-dumb government agent who has bought into the whole duck-and-cover thing; Dean, the beatnik junk sculptor whose cool helps thwart Kent's heat; Hogarth's mother, an old-fashioned, benignly clueless sit-com mom. Together they create a smart live-and-let-live parable, full of glancing, acute observations on all kinds of big subjects--life, death, the military-industrial complex--that...
...moviegoers be--not shocked, we're too savvy and jaded for that--titillated by the spectacle of wicked creatures taking vengeful pleasures? If so, Wild Things may find an audience beyond the one lining up to see Neve Campbell translate her small-screen Sturm und Angst into surly beatnik chic...
...succeeding years, Harvey's wooden statue became a 40-ft.-high man; the flames leaped higher, and the crowd grew ever more animated and theatrical. The intensity eventually taxed even the beatnik- and hippie-hardened San Francisco police, who asked Harvey and his acolytes to move off the beach. The Zen of the desert beckoned...