Word: bohemian
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...good workout in the gym with an orgasm--and on Oprah! You can see frames of him smoking what looks like a big fat joint after a contest win. You can view Mapplethorpe-like photographs of him in the nude. You can see his complete ease in the bohemian subculture of Muscle Beach...
...Boston Philharmonic comes to Sanders Theatre to celebrate everyone’s favorite Bohemian Gustav Mahler with a retrospective. For those not familiar with our illustrious, bespectacled friend, commentary will be read before each piece, making sure the audience gets a full understanding of the genius they are lucky enough to witness. The concert hits all the right notes, featuring “Blumine,” “Songs of a Wayfarer” and “Symphony No. 1 (Titan).” Tickets $54, $42, $30, $15; $4 off for students/seniors. 7:30 p.m. Sanders...
...SIGNS OF THE TIMES The Trial Of Bureaucracy In the land of Kafka, one small village is fighting back against ubiquitous, omnipotent bureaucracy. Provoked by a steep rise in paperwork in recent years, the Bohemian hamlet of Jindrichovice pod Smrkem (pop. 630) has declared itself out of bounds to all uninvited employees of the Czech central government and its various subsidiaries. Signs at entrances to the village and its train station depict the crossed-out pictogram of a civil servant...
Hughes is remembered today as the billionaire bohemian who built that Edsel of airplanes, the Spruce Goose, and spent the late 1960s as the reclusive, emaciated owner of a slew of Las Vegas hotels and casinos. His death in 1976, as a reader wrote to TIME, "disproved the saying that 'you can never be too rich or too thin...
...five a week, earning barely enough to keep him in hand-rolled cigarettes. Tall, gangly and socially inept, he flung himself at women, who usually retreated in terror. One who didn't was Eileen O'Shaughnessy, a London University graduate student. Feisty and willing to share his austerely bohemian life, she married him in 1936. She also joined Orwell in his formative experience, the Spanish Civil War. He went to write articles about the Republican cause, she to help edit a workers' party newspaper. He soon joined the party's fighting unit and saw some action, though he couldn...