Word: bohemianized
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...snowy beach I thought of an old friend who just got married to the wonderful woman with whom he had been living in perfect bohemian splendor for a dozen years, in a high Episcopalian ceremony so beautiful it took your breath away. And I thought of an old enemy and his new wife who are about to have their first child, and I wished them great happiness. I thought of other things I cannot name. Then I thought of my mother, 89, her once fine and witty mind assaulted by Alzheimer's but otherwise, and cruelly, in excellent health...
Kramer's approach is not systematic, and the subjects of her six chapters are very specific: a restaurant in a bohemian district of West Berlin, an East German poet who spied on his friends for the secret police, the struggle over what kind of Holocaust memorial--if any--should be built in Berlin. Perhaps the most poignant and telling of the stories is the one about a young man whom Kramer calls Peter Schmidt, a drifting East German who tried to escape when the Wall still existed, was caught and imprisoned but was eventually sold to the West (the East...
...sooner had I thought this when there, four feet away from me, was Hillary Clinton--standing starkly in the offensive, hypnotic glare of the LED electronic message board, scanning the menu of Loker's "bohemian-style coffeehouse." She had come downstairs to meet her daughter for lunch. With her appearance, an underground furtiveness crept into the air as lunch companions quickly hushed and murmured; eyes darted and honed in; people strained to look casual and turn their necks, owl-like, 180 degrees. A collective concentration fixed in on Hillary, as she stood there painfully aware of her own aura...
...novel gets some of its energy and power through the contrast and conflict between Rocky's Filipino heritage, personified by her domineering mother, and her adopted American bohemian culture, championed by bandmate-lover Elvis Chang. "My mother once confessed how much sex revolted her," Rocky says, shortly after sleeping with Elvis. "'Romance is what I crave,' she said. 'Sex is for men and animals'...I dreamed about sex, wrote about it, sang about it; I got down and dirty when I talked about it." When Rocky's mother starts up a family business making and delivering Filipino food, Rocky leaves...
DIED. RAFAEL KUBELIK, 82, Bohemian-born maestro; in Lucerne, Switzerland. Son of renowned violinist Jan Kubelik, he became, at 27, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague. Seeking artistic freedom, he left Czechoslovakia when it went communist in 1948. Over the years he led the Chicago Symphony and Munich's Bavarian Radio Symphony...