Word: hedonist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second event brought back memories of battles I had with Black fraternities during my undergraduate days at one of the Black colleges (Lincoln University, Penn.)--battles over their pathetic consumerist and hedonist values, as well as their indifference to the budding civil rights activism in the early 1950s...
...seen fit to update his classic handiwork. The man who made stars -- and conquests -- of such leading ladies as Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda has just finished an identically titled 1980s version that is the "same idea," he says, but the "heroine is different." Juliette, the saucy French hedonist, has become Robin Shay, an aspiring American musician. She "believes in her freedom over everything," says Rebecca De Mornay, 24, who plays the part. "And she's afraid of the intimacy that goes with having a loving man." Explains Vadim, 59: "Brigitte played an instinctive, sensuous woman...
...desperately wants. The only solution in both cases is bypass surgery. The Zuckerman brothers face the same difficult choice, but for diametrically opposed reasons. Henry, the responsible family man, has to decide whether to put his life on the line for a fling; Nathan, the notorious womanizer and hedonist with money to burn and an immaculate Manhattan apartment, must risk all for fatherhood...
While the President is an ascetic family man, Rifaat is an outright hedonist with seven wives, countless mistresses and 17 children. After deciding to send two of his sons to college near Washington, D.C., Rifaat last year spent $1.1 million on a mansion in Potomac, Md., which he furnished with armed guards, housekeepers and other retainers. Just one month later, the house was severely damaged by a fire of unknown origin, and the entire entourage apparently fled the country...
Lines like "Your life doesn't mean shit/Does that bum you out?/I won't get you high/I won't make you come" resist sexism by not mentioning women or men. The sons become diatribes against hedonism from the hedonist's point of view. They are vivid for the same reason that hardcore, despite criticism, remains alive--what else is there...