Word: bohemianism
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...health foods ("Vair is my kelp?" he once demanded of a bewildered porter), but was a first-class action-film director (The Jungle Book, Sahara). Vincent, Author Michael Korda's father, was an art director who could do the spectacular on a shoestring but never abandoned his bohemian ways. At the height of his career he sometimes wore Alex's hand-me-down suits without bothering to get them altered...
...piece has a good, basic comic premise in the puzzled response of the black-clad, soberly Unitarian locals to the exotic birds of passage who have come to light among them. This is nicely realized in the film by Felix, an unpretentiously bohemian artist, recognizing in his cousin Gertrude a fellow spirit struggling to burst free. The couple, played with lively grace by Tim Woodward and Lisa Eichhorn, provide the movie with its most beguiling passages, and their story, his winning her away from the lumpish minister her family intends her to marry, gives it its strong est narrative pulse...
Many of the younger performers coming up came out of what we called "The Silent Generation" and were apolitical. But they had something else going for them which related. They were a post Kerouac group who were somewhat Bohemian in outlook and lifestyle. I looked at the broader picture, and they were part of a scene that was very important to me. I didn't know how that scene was going to develop. But whatever was happening, I wanted to find...
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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...