Word: bohemians
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...family acquaintance from a very wealthy and devout family in Mashad, Iran's shrine city; he ended up being snared by a young woman of little religious conviction, who happily assumed greater propriety and more modest dress to cement the match. Most recently, I met the girlfriend of a bohemian but pious painter; she had spent half her life unveiled in London, but donned the full-length black chador to satisfy his expectations. She still says "Ciao!" when leaving the room, and seems at ease in her new reincarnation. The hejab marriage prerogative also works in reverse. When...
DIED. Denny Doherty, 66, winsome, bohemian lead vocalist and founding member of the Mamas and the Papas, the seminal 1960s pop foursome known for its tuneful harmonies on such hits as California Dreamin', Monday, Monday and Dedicated to the One I Love; after a short illness following stomach surgery; in Mississauga, Ont. The collegial but incestuous group--which included arranger-songwriter John Phillips, his wife Michelle and Cass Elliot--famously began to self-destruct after the disclosure that Doherty and Michelle Phillips had been having an affair...
Julius, their extravagantly gay friend, is a book and film reviewer whose former potential has waned through his years of bohemian dissipation. His might be said to emulate the dictum of his personal idol, Oscar Wilde: “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.” The problem is, in his excessive zeal for personality as an aesthetic, he has neglected to perform any “actual sustained endeavor...
...book, “My Last Sigh,” lacks autobiographical detail and does not shed much light on his works. Instead, Bunuel provides readers with a kaleidoscope rendition of the bohemian world of the 20th century’s great artistic minds. He freely mixes fact with fiction as he touches upon everything from art to politics. Bunuel mentions how figures like Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, and Charlie Chaplin dressed, drank, and behaved at orgies. The charm of “My Last Sigh” comes from the fiction, as well as the credibility and renown...
...when a hand reached under the partition between the toilet stalls and stroked [his] left leg; [he] stood up, horrified, pulled [his] pants on and left." Holleran later came out, and described the early years as consumed by "such force of "denial." Despite the pervasive bohemian politics of the time, his time at Harvard, he concluded, was one of segregation and unfulfilled longing...