Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comedy and reduce to absurdity his "fable" about a man named Guido making a sort of hide-and-seek game out of camp life, diverting his four-year-old son (Giorgio Cantarini) from its harshness and encouraging him to lie low. The idea, of course, is to save the boy from the gas chamber, where the young, the old and the sickly--all those who can't work--are automatically sent...
...possible that Beat bad boy JACK KEROUAC was as pragmatic, as structured, as hopelessly square as everyone else in the Eisenhower '50s? In the latest issue of the Atlantic Monthly, historian Douglas Brinkley deflates the myth that Kerouac pounded out On the Road in a three-week burst of manic energy sustained by jazz and Benzedrine. After sifting through documents to which he was recently granted access by Kerouac's estate, Brinkley reveals that the author, who died in 1969, actually planned, plotted and outlined his homage to nomadic nonconformity well before writing the novel's final draft...
...life. Certainly it was for Pollock, and from it stemmed his abiding interest in the "totemic"--in mythic images that were either lost to modern, Euro-American culture or buried so far back in its origins that they seemed mysterious and exotic. Pollock in the late 1930s was a boy in deep emotional trouble, drinking like a fish and undergoing Jungian analysis. Like other Abstract Expressionists-to-be (Mark Rothko, for instance), he was on the lookout for archetypes and dark, unconsulted levels of feeling, in the hope that art could release his inner shaman, antlers, rattle and all. Hence...
...Sean ("Puffy") Combs makes music for Saturday nights, Faith Evans, a rising star on Combs' Bad Boy Records, sings songs for rainy Sunday afternoons. Evans, the widow of slain rapper the Notorious B.I.G., mostly steers clear of hip-hop on this album to focus on slow and mid-tempo R.-and-B. balladry. Some of Evans' sad-eyed love songs float away, like evaporated tears. But at her best, on such songs as No Way and Keep the Faith, she leaves us drained but curiously refreshed, as if we've had a good, well-deserved...
...much heed to their cross-dressing classmate. But Alex engendered quite an outcry from others in his conservative rural community. Parents of kids in younger grades complained that Alex was negatively influencing their children. After a closed-door session, the school demanded that Alex either start dressing like a boy or leave...