Word: hedonist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hedonist? Do you enjoy hedonistic-type things? The International Poster Gallery presents "Sweet Temptations," an exhibit of poster advertisements for chocolate, alcohol, drugs and the like. All posters also on sale. Through Friday. International Poster Gallery, 205 Newbury St., Boston. 375-0076. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. FREE...
...junkie, mostly by prescription; a hedonist, generally by inclination; and a profligate, largely by longing. He wanted to be the naughty boy and the good son both. He carried his collection of police badges with him everywhere, a putative peace officer who loved to disturb the peace. He was afraid of the dark, so he slept in the day, explaining, "I know in the daytime when I go to sleep that it's dark in my room, and I pretend like it's night, but I know it's daytime, and I'm not afraid to fall asleep...
Occupying a breathtaking spot on the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic, Casa de Campo is one of the Caribbean's most storied resorts. It bills itself as "a hedonist's and sportsman's dream," and that's truth in advertising. The place has 14 swimming pools, a world-class shooting ground, PGA-quality golf courses and $1,000-a-night villas...
Bonnard's critics--including Picasso, who dismissed his art as "a potpourri of indecision"--have often made the mistake of treating Bonnard as a mere hedonist, with his beautiful color and apparent lack of conceptual underpinning. In this they have been wrong. There was nothing stupid or foolishly pleasurable about Bonnard's work. But Whitfield is right to see Bonnard as an elegiac artist: "He is not a painter of pleasure. He is a painter of the effervescence of pleasure and the disappearance of pleasure...
Superficially, such an event seems like a small victory for student activism. Certainly the substantive content of the protest was contemptible--only an idiot or an unreconstructed hedonist would wish to smoke cannabis after being fully apprised of the drug's ill-effects. Yet perhaps its form--with its persistent challenges to authority and the status quo--represented a first step toward a broader social consciousness among college students. Even if the cause of cannabis is bankrupt, Mass-Can could still claim a bit of credit for raising the political consciousness of its followers...