Word: bohemianized
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Charles Driggs (Jeff Daniels) is a typical yuppie businessman whose idea of adventure is investing in municipal bonds. He meets Lulu (Melanie Griffith), a Bohemian in bangles, who offers him a ride to work...
...Larkin's famous lament, "In nineteen sixty-three/ (Which was rather late for me) -- / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ And the Beatles' first LP." It was just in time, however, for Clive James, who arrived in London from Australia in 1962 seeking literary fame, the socialist millennium, bohemian good times and the love of beautiful women, not necessarily in that order. Eventually James would become a successful Fleet Street journalist-critic and a popular panelist on British TV. But for now his ambition was "to take a lowpaying menial job during the day and compose poetic masterpieces...
...French have long put the ooh in la la, and the watchwords of recent years in France have been "slim" and "sleek." Now a newcomer named Beatrice Dalle is bursting the seams of Paris and bringing some heft back to pulchritude. Two years ago, the unknown 19-year-old bohemian was walking down a Paris street when a photographer asked to take her picture. She agreed and -- voila! -- Dalle soon appeared on her first magazine cover, followed last summer by an Elle magazine story using her face and cleavage to herald the return of the well-rounded figure. Her acting...
...goes for a year to revitalize oneself, but then one has to go back to the real world. The east coast is the real world--it's fast, it's competitive," Shepsle says. And as he puffs on his pipe, Shepsle certainly looks more Eastern Establishment than California Bohemian...
...heterosexual near-blind brother, and an eleven-year-old daughter by magnificent, "fascinatingly brooding, darkly luminous" Renaissance Rocco. From Maxi's view at the top, Krantz scatters a lot of glitz: hot seawater bubble baths, iced buffalo-grass vodka, tarte Tatin, Pratesi sheets, Don Johnson, Le Cirque and the Bohemian Grove. But she never forgets the essentials: steamy dialogue, unexpurgated sex and the outside chance that some of her fictive creatures may actually exist. I'll Take Manhattan is not literature, but it is lively and, in its own way, moral. In any Krantz work, the good get loved...