Word: bohemianized
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...peasant tops. This year the bohemian look has been supplanted by Asian attire, including cheongsams, kimono-style shirts and pants replete with embroidery, along with jewelry of engraved lacquer, jade and coral. Asian fashion, of course, has been around for centuries, but every so often Westerners rediscover its riches. "China, and its abundant heritage, offers boundless inspiration," says Stanislas de Quercize, president and CEO of Cartier, whose company this April launched a new line, Le Baiser du Dragon (The Kiss of the Dragon) with designs invoking Chinese openwork screens and fen ling wind bells. Cartier's diamond wish-knot pendant...
...Holocaust. Sendak has washed the production design with light. He has shifted his color palette from subdued hues to vivid primary schemes. Says director Thor Steingraber: "There are no yellow stars on the children's coats. There's no reference to concentration camps. The set is strictly a lovely Bohemian town...
...provinces, takes his son Xiaochun (Tang Yun), 13, a violin prodigy, to Beijing in hopes of promoting the boy's career. He's gifted, no doubt, but in big-city music competitions, a bribe decides the winner. Nevertheless, Xiaochun gets a good teacher--Jiang (Wang Zhiwen), a sympathetic bohemian with a Dickens-novel quota of pet cats--and befriends an effervescent girl-on-the-make named Lili (Chen Hong, who offscreen is Chen's wife...
...very much younger, and he was the Pope." But he was fascinated by Surrealist theories of automatic drawing and writing; of the importance of chance encounters and intuition; and above all, of rebellion. (He still claims to be an "anarchist, but not violent.") He also met the cream of bohemian Paris, from Jean Giraudoux to Max Ernst and Gertrude Stein. In 1931, after a year hunting game on the Ivory Coast, Cartier-Bresson had a fateful chance encounter when he came across a photograph by the Hungarian Martin Munkacsi: three boys leaping in the waves of Lake Tanganyika. "I suddenly...
...does when the Wall comes down. "Well, I'll simply start walking," he thinks. "[And] the rest will somehow fall into place." Berliners traditionally split the neighborhood in two: the better-off, bohemian Kreuzberg 61 and the grittier SO36, both named after their postal codes. Start your walk by heading south from Mehringdamm station in Kreuzberg 61 and take a stroll up the Kreuzberg itself, a 66-m-high hill that gave the district its name in 1921. From the monument to the Wars of Liberation of 1813-15 at the top you have a sweeping view of the city...