Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wall's managers and regulars--all bona fide members of Cambridge's bohemian fringe--preferred to think of these shorts as "art films." Art films--you know, the kind Nabokov knew would be worth a few chuckles when he used the term in Lolita, when Lolita tells the lecherous Professor Humbert that she has been to live in an artists' colony in Mexico...
...Long March formed "local liaisons. " But most were too young or poor for this and were urged by their commanders, in Witke's words, "not to dissipate their virility on sex and their money on prostitutes." In this puritanical atmosphere, the newcomers from the cities - many distinctly bohemian-were regarded with suspicion. That applied to Chiang Ch'ing, the movie actress, who arrived in August 1937. Her journey to Yenan was arduous: she rode in the backs of trucks, and where roads had been destroyed, she had to switch to horseback, although she had never been...
...virtually non-existent, but the details themselves are indelible. Bob the embezzler is a "small absconding man," who under accusation smiles "like a razor." One woman is observed to have "painted her face as though it were a wall." Thomas himself is described as a "bombastic adolescent provincial bohemian," for whom lying was good, because "it made you feel warm and shameful...
Died. Emiliano Augusto di Cavalcanti, 79, Brazil's premier painter; following surgery; in Rio de Janeiro. Cavalcanti (known simply as "Di") rejected the military career planned for him in favor of a bohemian life. During the 1920s and '30s, he worked in Paris along with Picasso, Braque and Matisse, then returned to Brazil to paint bright, bold, cubist landscapes and sensuous mulatto women whose skin, he said, "is silk and reflects...
...pleasures of shopping, dining and admiring culture all at the same time," says Mitsukoshi President Shigeru Okada-and the store affords ample opportunity for all these. On its seven floors, with their tightly packed 16.5 acres of selling space, Mitsukoshi offers half a million kinds of merchandise. They include Bohemian crystal, Rolls-Royces with $60,000 price tags and homelier items like American jeans and portions of grilled...