Word: bohemia
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...month, after his freshman year at Fordham University, Thorne drove home to Chicago, but he did not go to his mother's 15-room East Lake Shore Drive apartment. Instead, he went to a dingy hotel, and then moved into a tiny, raffish apartment in Chicago's bohemia. A few days later, on June 19, his body was found there abed, with blood-flecked lips and, on his arms. nine neat punctures like a drug-addict's needle marks. Four were fresh...
...Bohemia Club, dedicated to the age of chivalry, boasts more than 40 members, all of whom go through an elaborate system of probation, starting as pilgrims and gradually working up to burgher, squire and knight. They bear special names: e.g., a Hollywood physician is known as Knight Hypocrates or the Pill Peddler. Members carry swords and wear helmets, use what they consider to be antique language ("gnaw" for eat, "torch" for cigar), and engage in musical and beer-drinking contests. In the works: a club house with moat and drawbridge...
...Then, to make her Spaniard happy, she gave him up to a younger woman. Misia's memoirs are written in low key. sometimes with the flatness of a diary. But despite her flaws as a writer, her story gives a revealing account of life on the borderland of Bohemia in a bygone Europe, and an engrossing picture of Misia herself. It might make a movie, a French movie...
Cubans naturally found the official story strange and unconvincing; lurid rumors began to spread. Last week Cuba's leading magazine, Bohemia, printed a photograph of Arteaga. Under the picture was the deadpan caption: "The wound suffered by Monsignor Manuel Arteaga on the forehead on the night of the 12th of August in his palace on the Avenida del Puerto. Twenty stitches were necessary to close it, the task being accomplished by Dr. Anido in the operating room of the Centro Médico Quirürgico...
...saying no more than that, Bohemia seemed to be telling the reader that there was actually a great deal more to say. Meanwhile, a circumstantial account of the incident flashed around Cuba and jumped the Straits of Florida to Miami, where exiled opposition leaders keep close tabs on their homeland, only an hour away by airliner. According to this account, detectives of the Cuban Bureau of Investigation swooped down on the cardinal's palace one night shortly after the rebellion had been suppressed. In the midst of a frenzied city-wide search for anti-Batista plotters, they had picked...