Word: bohemianism
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...years ago and have enlivened Jamaican politics ever since with their name-calling feud. "The opposition is made up of fools," cried incumbent Premier Norman Washington Manley, 68, an aloof, Oxford-educated barrister. In even louder voice was his opponent. Sir William Alexander Bustamante, 78, a tempestuous, half-Irish Bohemian. Manley billed himself as "The Man with the Plan," but to Bustamante he was only "The Clot with the Plot...
...Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay!, about two sailors who pick up a couple of girls. He had never seen a sailor. In the next few years, returning to St. Louis, he churned out scripts about miners (unseen), munitions makers (unseen), prison convicts roasted alive (unseen) and a flophouse (visited). A quasi-bohemian theater group called the Mummers staged them...
...titillated San Francisco gossipists-which twin would get the toniest bachelor on Telegraph Hill?-came the answer last week, when Land Developer John Fell Stevenson, 25, youngest son of the U.S.'s U.N. ambassador, reached the moment of troth with Occasional Interior Decorator Natalie Owings, 22, the less bohemian of the sloe-eyed twin daughters of Architect...
...minimum charge, Hayes-Bick has in effect dried the well-springs of the Cambridge Beat. Gone are the days of heartfelt gemutlichkeit over a cup of coffee, lasting sometimes 'til gray dawn. This action imperils also that welcome respite from the bombast of the lecture hall; even the non-bohemian, more conventional student will have to consider seriously the financial strain of the between-class coffee break. Waldorf's in its wishy-washy way, has compromised. It has adopted a minimum charge, which begins only after...
...this is amiable in its vaporous way is best explained in two words: Art Carney. Carney is a master of comic body English: when he stumbles over a table in the flickering, candlelit murk of a coffeehouse and barks at the bohemian proprietor like a wounded seal, "Are you OPEN?", he is inexpressibly funny. As lovable as Carney's philistine brute is Elizabeth Ashley's collegiate beauty, perfumed with dew-behind-the-ears charm. Between them, these two duck a good many of the script's incessantly bursting soap bubbles...