Word: vivants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Using court records, newspaper accounts, diaries and other historical documents, writer-director Moises Kaufman re-creates the courtroom battles that destroyed the career (and ultimately the life) of the late-Victorian playwright, wit and homosexual bon vivant. The cleverly stylized history lesson, playing off-Broadway and in San Francisco, is also a poignant study of an artist brought down as much by his own hubris as an intolerant society...
...Versace in mid-life, it turns out, was a tempered bon vivant, a high-glitz homebody. After occasional major bashes, like the New Year's Eve soirees he threw for the past two years in South Beach (where guests included everyone from Calvin Klein to Rosie O'Donnell), he might decamp to a gay club called the Warsaw Ballroom with a small group of friends to watch male dancers perform. But he was known as a quiet purveyor of the scene, a man who avoided drugs and heavy drinking. "I once proposed that we go out," recalls his friend Janie...
...life of the bon vivant is closer to home than you may think. Since the 1960s. Let's Go, Inc. has sent thousands of Harvard students to practically every corner of the globe in search of the best bargains for the shoestring traveler, They may not confront lions, but they have their own share of hair-raising tales to relate...
...Spielberg's masterstrokes is the manner in which he depicts Schindler's conversion from apolitical bon vivant to moral hero. The transformation does not occur with a sudden flash of light from the heavens; instead, it develops slowly and credibly as Schindler becomes increasingly aware of the Nazis's deeds...
...last year, Jesse Furman '94, bon vivant and editor of the Perspective, penned an article which labeled Inside EDGE sexist. Inside EDGE is, of course, the glossy magazine co-founded by Aaron Shapiro '94, which proclaimed in the first issue that it was "better than sex and less filling than beer...