Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screen plays (Home Sweet Homicide, Underworld Story), whose hard-drinking, hard-loving, hard-dying heroes reflected their creator's liquid-decked (she was committed to California's Camarillo State Hospital in 1949 for chronic alcoholism), love-torn (five times married) and death-daring (she twice threatened suicide) Bohemian existence; of cause under investigation; in Los Angeles...
Seated with the Jerks. Kim's childhood, even as recounted by her family, was Spock-marked with classic difficulties. Her birth in Chicago on Feb. 13, 1933, came as a disappointment to her parents, Joseph and Blanche Novak, native Americans of Bohemian parentage, who had prepared only boys' names for the arrival. The Novaks named her Marilyn Pauline. Joe Novak, a claim clerk for the Milwaukee Railroad, is a melancholy, tight-lipped man whom little Marilyn tried hard to please; she seldom succeeded. Marilyn proved to be lefthanded; her father badgered her without success to use her right...
...Mirror Shows. In the funny and sad love stories, the summer dresses seem to have faded a little. Then We Were Three flattens its triangle in the familiar way, with one of the lovers left out in the cold; In the French Style contains the despair of the aging bohemian as his last and best mistress takes refuge in marriage; Voyage Out, Voyage Home brings some fresh insights to that sturdy chestnut, the doomed romance between a healthy lover and a tubercular...
Love & Death. In his early days everything that Munch did only served to reinforce the opinion that he was a madman, a Bohemian, a dangerous freethinker. He was obsessed by two great themes, love and death, and chose to depict them in terms of man's paralysis and anxiety when faced with them as raw forces in nature. Much of his anxiety had its roots in his early semi-invalid youth. His mother died when he was five; his father, a military surgeon, gave way to morbid religiosity and insane outbursts at his children. Recalled Painter Munch bitterly...
...cannot, but his one-man band plays on to the rock and roll of the wide Pacific. Amid all the dedicated bores, Miller remains a fascinating character. He is rather proud to find himself an institution of sorts-the No. 1 U.S. Bohemian. One of the most appealing things in his book is his shyly proud report that his correspondence (including a postcard from Mecca) is filed in the special-collections division of the University of Southern California's library, a mass of 10,000 items which must comprise the biggest pile of profound piffle since Greenwich Village...