Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graduate of Riverdale Country Day school and Brown University. Birnbach said she based her book largely on personal experience. Calling her Harvard visit a "sentimental journey," she described herself as a "bohemian preppy," which her book defines as more free-spirited than the usual, conservative preppy...
Those who don't have an ear for music will be able to remember a line in the moderato of the Shostakovich that sounds just like the theme from Million Dollar Movie. The Tubin, similarly, contains rhapsodic, whistling tunes of the Bohemian life. And Gaudeamus Igitur--well, a trip to the Hasty Pudding might be just as good...
...also a student at the Liverpool College of Art while the Quarrymen were still gigging around. "I knew John would always be a bohemian," Aunt Mimi recalled. "But I wanted him to have some sort of job. Here he was nearly 21 years old, touting round stupid halls for ?3 a night. Where was the point in that...
...Jewish, New York avant-garde poet Ira Streiker played by Ray Sharkey with all of the obnoxious energy of a real-life poet whose name almost rhymes with Strindberg. In three short sequences, Sharkey opens up with the abrasive, honest creativity that soured critics and the general public to Bohemian art. He sours some of his friends, too, but his attempt to fight mediocrity with boldness stands out in a film that turns the lives of three vibrant, struggling, unusual people into three mud puddles...
...which she married a singer whom she had known for three weeks, then abandoned him on their wedding night. In her first eight years in England she had 29 postal addresses, not counting excursions to Europe. She compartmentalized her life, playing different roles to different people: the reckless bohemian, the exalted votary of art, the matey colonial. Paraphrasing Polonius in her journal, she wrote: "True to oneself Which self?" -Christopher Porterfield