Word: bohemianism
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Brodsky, 45, is something of an international celebrity and hero. He was already an important young poet in the Soviet Union when he was charged with "social parasitism." Translation: his poetry and bohemian ways did not advance the causes of Communism. Hauling manure on a farm near the Arctic Circle did, according to the state, and in 1964 he was sent there to earn his keep. Neither the isolation nor the climate stopped him from writing. As he testified in his poem "A Part of Speech," "I was raised by the cold that, to warm my palm,/ gathered my fingers...
With this edict, Wilson sets in motion an exquisite comedy of errors. Clandestine meetings become necessary, with the following results: the painter, Timothy Lupton, falls in love with Maudie, while her mother decides that this dashed handsome young bohemian's attentions are directed at her. Added to this mix-up are cameo appearances by Victorian notables like Walter Pater, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope and Thomas Huxley. But beneath this sparkling surface roil undercurrents of genuine pain. Nettleship, a figure of fun in all his balding, pedantic outward manifestations, knows himself well enough to realize that he has botched his life...
...York in the early '30s was as wide a world as an adolescent could handle. Avant-garde art, radical politics and a blend of bourgeois habits and bohemian attitudes encouraged theatrical poses. Simon's favorite getup is a long gray raincoat, a gold borsalino hat and black stockings. At 15 she is a live-in helper for a Greenwich Village dermatologist and his family. The Bergsons appreciate culture with a capital K, and the baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon...
Glass and Wilson began as cultural rebels, "downtown" artists in New York City's bohemian SoHo district who shared a radical aesthetic. Linked not only by ideals but by the cultural establishment's chilly rejection of their efforts, they and several like-minded colleagues forged a style that prized content over form, emotion over intellectuality; gradually, they won over wider audiences with the uncompromising excellence of their visions. Today Glass's relentless, repetitious music has become gentler, smoother, subtler and more flexible. Wilson's stream-of-consciousness stage pictures, which are intended to evoke emotional states rather than further conventional...
...apparent conviction who winds up happily married to the owner of an Italian resort hotel. Mimi, sweet and depressive, is stood up for a date as a teen, and she is well past her prime before she settles for the aging manager of the Dorn factory. Betty the bohemian demonstrates a lively spirit by running off to Paris, but she is last seen as a Hollywood pool lizard married to a film producer...