Word: bohemian
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...Shoes.com "It started in January as a very metropolitan craze. Now they've spread to every corner." Their resurgence was probably boosted by Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker's Sex in the City character, who clops around Manhattan in them. They also complement this season's '70s-inspired bohemian chic, marked by peasant blouses and worn-out denim. This year there's a sexy high-heeled variation named the Sassy joining the sleek Original and 1998's chunkier Super. In addition to the old primary colors, straps come in hot pink, turquoise and silver. And the sandals are still affordable...
...nauseated, in the minutiae--and with kids, there are a lot of minutiae--every person's experience is unique. It seems there's now a book reflecting every style of motherhood, from Ayun Halliday's The Big Rumpus (Seal Press), a breezy chronicle of raising children in the more bohemian neighborhoods of New York City, to Rachel Cusk's cerebral A Life's Work (Picador), an almost anatomical examination of the thousand shocks that new motherhood inflicts on a woman's psyche...
Aiding the communication of the magic are the skilled performances of the actors, particularly GSAS Brett Gamboa (also the production’s director), as the Bohemian King, Polixenes, accused of cuckolding his life long friend Leontes, King of Sicilia...
...Downing begins in 1961, when Shunryu Suzuki, a quirky but brilliant monk in Japan's Soto Zen lineage, hung out a shingle in one of San Francisco's bohemian neighborhoods offering instruction in zazen. Unlike Rinzai Zen, which uses intellectual methods like koans to free the mind from itself, Soto Zen has few features that are susceptible to coffeehouse dilettantism. Zazen, the Soto school's central practice, is a unique method of wordless, thoughtless "just sitting," in which the mind seeks to become as empty as a puddle reflecting a cloudless sky. It is demanding, frustrating...
...painter Henri de Toulouse Lautrec was commissioned to do a print advertising the opening of the Moulin Rouge, a much-hyped new nightclub in the bohemian Montmartre quarter of Paris. The print, known today simply as “Moulin Rouge,” was so popular that, within days, admirers were stealing them from kiosks throughout the city. With the success of “Moulin Rouge,” Toulouse Lautrec’s career changed course. Prints became his primary medium; flamboyant can-can dancers, brightly painted clowns, seedy nightclubs and crowded bars became his subjects. However...