Word: nonconformists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heyday. Yet nearly a hundred years later, people are still visiting the nerve center of this willfully useless movement. In 1916 the German poet Hugo Ball, who lived in Zurich at the time, opened a café-cum-theater called Cabaret Voltaire, where Tzara, Hans Arp and other nonconformist artists gathered. It was in the Cabaret's upstairs room that the group is said to have decided to find a name as incongruous as their free-form art. They randomly inserted a knife into a French-German dictionary; it pointed to the word dada, an archaic French term...
...which was shot in the Philippines, Depp played a small but moving role as a Vietnamese-speaking G.I. who perishes in a firefight. Many of us fortysomethings, who were yuppies during the Philippines' turbulent 1980s, grew up watching the young Depp. We admired him for being rebellious, idealistic and nonconformist yet totally committed to his craft. Even back then, Depp had something special. Raul H. Dado Vientiane, Laos...
Hooray for Johnny Depp! I read every word of your story about "Hollywood's most unusual star" [MARCH 15]. Many of us fortysomethings, who were yuppies during the 1980s, grew up watching the young Depp. We admired him for being rebellious, idealistic and nonconformist yet totally committed to his craft. Even then, Depp had something special. RAUL H. DADO Vientiane, Laos
DIED. HERB GARDNER, 68, Tony-winning playwright; after a long battle with lung disease; in New York City. His biggest success, A Thousand Clowns, in 1962, told the story of Murray Burns (played by Jason Robards Jr.), a nonconformist ex-writer for children's TV who fights to keep custody of his nephew. Gardner also wrote I'm Not Rappaport, a 1985 hit about a pair of endearingly cantankerous octogenarians...
...entertained in front of the Ben & Jerry’s and other shops near the piers, joining guitar players, jugglers and other street performers in the artsy, nonconformist Cape town of about 3,500 residents...