Word: bohemianized
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...long enough that stylistic confusion like this is a little less frequent. Every Friday night, crews of rappers make the trip from The Bronx to the lower West Side of Manhattan, where they do their stuff at a roller disco called the Roxy. The crowd there is mostly new bohemian types. They watch with the guilty pleasure of anthropologists visiting Soul Train, as rappers pick up on a little new wave style (miniskirts and studs are making a showing in the South Bronx) and make their moves. Downtown, however, there is a palpable difference in the proceedings. "We bring everything...
FAIRFIELD PORTER '28 lived and painted the breezy, cheerful life of American upper middle-class success. While his Bohemian colleagues debated aesthetics and dribbled random patterns of canvas. Porter patiently ignored abstract expressionism, rejected as incomprehensible the artistic movements of the fifties and set about depicting "things as they were." Whit an optimistic and impressionistic flair all his own, he faithfully recorded the comfortable little world of pleasant surroundings and relaxed people he knew and loved so well. As the title of the first major exhibition of his work, now at the Museum of Fine Arts, puts it, Fairfield Porter...
...siblings, some of whom spent their lives wondering when Alfred would ever grow up. From his teens onward, when he was drawn to photography and modernism in painting and sculpture, the bourgeois he most wanted to épater were his closest kinfolk. Yet he was free to indulge in bohemian pursuits, secure in the knowledge that his family could, however grudgingly, afford...
...Reich, who writes largely abstract, or "absolute" music, Glass revels in his music's inherent theatricality, and his best works have been for the stage. With his slightly bug-eyed stare, shock of unruly hair and his jeans and work shirts, he is the very picture of the bohemian composer, admirably captured in a huge portrait, Phil, by Artist Chuck Close that hangs in New York's Whitney Museum. Glass's adventurous collaboration with avant-garde Dramatist Robert Wilson resulted in Einstein on the Beach, an experimental five-hour "opera" that played to packed houses in Europe...
...Secretary Peter G. Peterson: "[West German Chancellor] Helmut Schmidt considers George one of the best friends he has, and has enormous respect for him. It's hard for me to imagine any one who would be more acceptable to the Europeans." The two men have vacationed together at Bohemian Grove, a private California men's retreat to which Shultz belongs...