Word: bohemian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within the sylvan secrecy of Bohemian Grove, 75 miles north of San Francisco, there is a spot almost equidistant from the Russian River and Snob Hill Trail. It is called Cave Man Camp. There, for two days last week, Barry Goldwater slipped gratefully into seclusion, surrounded by centuries-old redwoods, water-lily-carpeted ponds, and a covey of U.S. millionaires and influentials, Republican and Democratic, who like to strip to their skivvies, swig Scotch in the sun, and forget their troubles...
...Sound of Color. Kupka was 40 before he produced his first abstract paintings called Nocturne, Fugue in Red and Blue, and Warm Chromatic. Born in 1871 to a Bohemian village clerk in what is now Czechoslovakia, he began drawing statues in the town square, entered art school in Prague at the age of 16. He delighted in the new philosophies of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, who exalted unconscious will and intuition over reason. He was entranced by their thought that music is the most abstract and therefore highest art - and decided to challenge it in paint...
Seeds of Shortage. Czechoslovakia's economic troubles stem from the inflexible imposition of Marxist rules on the economy. Prewar Czechoslovakia was famous for sophisticated consumer goods, from Skoda automobiles to Bohemian glass; its living standard was among Europe's highest, and the country emerged from the war relatively undamaged. Then the Communists, who seized power in 1948, gradually switched much of the country's economy over to heavy industry...
Jack Armstrong's cohorts are an improper Bohemian (Joan Darling) and "an aggressive, successful young lawyer" (Buck Henry), an astringent facsimile of Jack Lemmon with everything pared away but the raging, libidinous core. Together these three spray buckshot at everything from psychological testing to Hollywood sex and suspense to Harold Lloyd cliffhangers and the sacrifice of 5th century Chinese maidens. Occasionally they take time out to paint one another white, or to elude a Sanitation Department truck propelled by murderous impulses. With all its freewheeling eclecticism and formless exuberance, The Troublemaker is finally just funny enough to leave...
...wealthy old skate who lays out plenty of silver to keep Son Horst from nipping off. She offers him an Austin-Healey, a luxuriantly upholstered housemaid ("or find a nice married woman in your own world"), and cold cash. Horst uses the money to set himself up as a bohemian artist in Rome, but he can't fill his life or his canvas because "there is nothing worth painting." Ultimately, he finds redemption through fleshly enslavement to Catherine, an amoral part-time model and fulltime hetaera who makes him feel love, jealousy and suicidal impulses. This, of course, means...