Word: bohemian
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...organizational pedigree in Christianity: the book of Acts records that after Jesus' death, his Apostles gathered not at the temple but in an "upper room." House churching has always prospered where resources were scarce or Christianity officially discouraged. In the U.S. its last previous bloom was rooted in the bohemian ethos of the California-bred Jesus People movement of the 1970s. Many of those groups were eventually reabsorbed by larger congregations, and the remnants tend to take a hard line. Frank Viola, a 20-year veteran Florida house churcher and author of Rethinking the Wineskin and other manuals, talks fondly...
...uptown Manhattan during rehearsals for Pan Asian Rep's Cambodia Agonistes, conductor and composer Jack Jarrett, 71, taps a key on his laptop to tweak the tempo for the dancers. Looking bohemian in a black turtleneck and wire-rimmed specs, Jarrett's doing his musical director thing. Back home in Greensboro, N.C., he's got another job--as vice president of R&D for software start-up VirtuosoWorks...
...Donald Martino studied at Syracuse University and at Princeton, where his mentors included composers Milton Babbitt and Rogers Sessions. Afterwards, he studied on a Fulbright fellowship in Florence with Luigi Dallapiccola, known as a Modernist master. Martino seemed to view music from a different perspective even from his fellow bohemian-like artists, said his fellow musician and roommate at Syracuse, Roy Lazarus. Not only did he take a special pride in the appearance of his works, handwriting his manuscripts in India ink, but he also did so in the structuring of his music, according to Lazarus. “[Martino...
...Stone family is a stereotypical New England, bohemian-bourgeoisie brood with Craig T. Nelson (“Coach” and, most recently, the voice of Mr. Incredible in “The Incredibles”) as the patriarch and Hollywood’s hip-mom actress Diane Keaton (“Something’s Gotta Give”) as the matriarch...
Luke Wilson, reprising his aw-shucks persona, is equally ineffective as Mulroney’s brother, Ben Stone. Supposedly the most bohemian of his clan, he is also the most boring. In films like “The Royal Tenenbaums” and “Old School” Wilson has always been, in my mind, the weakest link. That trend continues throughout this film...