Word: bohemia
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...last independent to be forced under. The revolution's heros engaged in suppression found El Diario difficult to sink because it had a reputation for responsibility and generous employment terms for its workers. Miguel Quevedo, whom Fidel of the Fifties embraced, and Francesco Pares, the editors of Bohemia Libre, were forced to publish in exile for a refugee readership. Apparently something about the name was appealing because the government now publishes a Bohemia Libre also...
Jules & Jim. Directed by Francois Truffaut. Jeanne Moreau plays that type of modern woman Strindberg first adored. She captures for life two best friends, marrying one and seducing the other. Yet needing more than what wartime Bohemia or reclusive bourgeois stability can give her, she cannot be held. Harvard Square...
...unself-conscious about it, she recalls the early years of marriage (she got married at 19) and of babies "being tossed around from one member of the family to another." Far from being harmful, however, this ensured "an even larger amount of affection." Not did any dreams of intellectual bohemia come true. "When I first started house-keeping I though I would never be 'bourgeois', but after a week of nonchalance I simply could not live in a picturesque mess any longer. I would much rather do extra housecleaning than live in filth...
...exists behind its nobly looming iron facades except art and cotton waste. But what disappoints the tourist delights the resident artist as he sits on his fire escape in the evening, five floors up, smoking grass and listening to Dylan. For SoHo is nothing like the traditional fantasy of bohemia. It is irreplaceable, one of the few areas of New York that is neither a slum nor a spectacle...
Another more pressing danger is eviction or demolition, or both. SoHo lofts are not zoned for residential use, but as long as health and safety standards are observed, the city tends to look the other way. Manhattan's inflated land values, however, make this last frontier of bohemia increasingly attractive to housing developers. If a rezoned SoHo, like Greenwich Village, starts sprouting high-rent, high-rise apartment buildings named for Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Cézanne, the artists who pioneered it will be the first ones forced to leave...