Word: bohemian
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...good people of Wisconsin have always had mixed feelings about one of their best-known native sons. They took pride in the achievements and fame of Frank Lloyd Wright, arguably the 20th century's most original architect, who died in 1959 at 91. Yet they also deplored his bohemian life-style, his arrogance and bombast, his leftist politics and above all his predilection for scandal. In 1909, to cite one notorious example, he abandoned his first wife and their six children to carry on a flagrant affair with a client's spouse. One result of Wisconsin's ambivalence: while...
...distance from the Australian art world-which, by the early '60s, had begun to see him as a talisman of integrity-was only outwardly bohemian; its ori-gins lay in the sort of calm, fanatical pride that cannot bear the distraction of company. One thinks of him scratching around between studio and sea like Shakespeare's exiled misanthrope Timon on the beach: "Come not to me again, but say to Athens/ Timon hath pitched his everlasting mansion/ Upon the beachEd verge of that salt flood...
Intimacy, a lack of pretense and an openness to the freshest, smartest talent were the Vanguard's hallmarks from the beginning. Gordon, a Lithuanian immigrant with a degree in English literature from Oregon's Reed College, first envisioned a neighborhood hangout for bohemian intellectuals-"the kind of place," as he wrote in his memoir, where "when the conversation soared and bristled with wit and good feeling, perhaps a resident poet would rise and declaim some verses...
...movement of musicians and visual artists who are defining and redefining their work through the use of cybertechnology. ``The computer is now an accepted tool,'' says David Ross, director of the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. ``In the art world, it is no longer an issue.'' From the fashionably bohemian precincts of lower Manhattan to London and Los Angeles, the cultural world abounds with computer-aided musicians, CD-ROM virtuosos, painters, photographers and digital artists who are building their own galleries in cyberspace -- all in addition to the digitally savvy filmmakers who have already transformed cinema. Lanier embodies a whole...
...also, at the very least, the jaunty and flamboyant hero of an extraordinary life story. Frank McLynn's Robert Louis Stevenson (Random House; 567 pages; $30) describes a hardworking idler, a Scottish Calvinist who remade himself as a romantic and (four days out of any seven) a convincing bohemian, a smothered son who remained boyish all his short life, and an invalid who lived a life of arduous travel and physical adventure. (Another frail, literary, boyish adventurer of the time comes to mind, and though R.L.S. and Theodore Roosevelt seem never to have met, they probably would have enjoyed each...