Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much help with the kids: she's trying to radicalize her senior citizens' center and attempting to keep Moses ideologically pure in materialistic America. Harassed by the contradictory demands of profession, middle-class responsibilities, nostalgia for old political ideals and the desire for a comfortable upper-bohemian style of life (not to mention a broken arm, for which he invents colorfully violent explanations as the occasion demands), Moses finds temporary resolutions to his conflicts in wisecracks, pretended cynicism and continual bustle...
...Armani, 43, is a canny tailor who knows precisely what each fabric can do and undo. Though Italians call his style Il Look Inglese-to which stiff upper-collared Englishmen might well object-Armani has managed to steer the national aspiration to la bella figura toward an image of bohemian nonchalance. His bellows-pocketed, unlined suits are sellouts in the U.S. at prices ranging from...
...loose, rambling, amiable film. The first half works particularly well. The second half drags on a bit too long and is broken by some incongruously depressing sequences, but the movie still remains one of the best film portraits of what life was like for the draft-board-baiting bohemian back-packers...
...ALLEGRO FINAL movement sounded particularly stirring. The orchestra played the fanfare and the subdued march of the cellos with full sensitivity, and Yannatos brought out each of the separate instrumental sections as well as the Bohemian flavor with great clarity. The ending, in which the horns lead an exciting theme involving the entire orchestra, revealed the same mastery of dynamics, color and suggestive instrumentation that the orchestra showed throughout the evening and that made the concert especially enjoyable and provocative for the listener...