Sentences with word «beatnik»

The word "beatnik" refers to a person from the 1950s and 1960s who rejected traditional society and was often associated with the Beat Generation, a countercultural movement that valued creativity, nonconformity, and non-materialistic lifestyles. Full definition
Period photographs (in the Spanierman catalogue) show a tough, handsome lady — Godwin is gay — who could be the real - life version of beatnik characters played by Audrey or Katherine Hepburn.
In her talk, Stein brings alive a posterity - averse beatnik with a legendary eye, a tale that unfolds as postmodernism elbowed the past aside.
7 Chinese Brothers «Schwartzman is a pithy, blue - collar beatnik in the wrong place and the wrong time and even though a persnickety little shit, he's far from the overbearingly bitter and caustic Schwartzman of Alex Ross» Listen Up Phillip.
Heilmann draws inspiration from her own experience, including the Southern California surf culture of her childhood, the San Francisco beatnik era of her teen years, the punk and new wave music scenes of 1970s and early 80s... read more... «Mary Heilmann: Not such a dumb girl»
Again writing with star Gerwig, Baumbach has constructed what is easily his most exuberantly brash film yet — chartering a collision course with contemporary beatnik culture at neck break speeds and spilling out a messy monument in its wake.
Volunteer at di Rosa November 2013: di Party di Rosa was a wild success October 2013: Beatnik Meteors exhibition explores artistic collaborations July 2013: 12th Annual Benefit Art Auction: di Party di Rosa, October 19, 2013 June 2013: External Combustion: Four Sacramento Sculptors May 2013: Families invited to Creativity Jam at di Rosa February 2013: Linda Connor: From Two Worlds December 2012: di Rosa Hires Curator Amy Owen
Drawing inspiration from her own experience, including the Southern California surf culture of her childhood, the San Francisco beatnik era of her teen years, the punk and new wave music scenes of 1970s and early 80s New York, and her formal training as a sculptor and ceramist, Heilmann incorporates a complex amalgam of personal references, cultural influences, and craft traditions in an artistic practice that includes painting, painted ceramics, and constructed furniture.
The title of the exhibition, Euphoria Now, refers to a stroboscopic device called Dreamachine (or dream machine) by Beatnik - artists Brion Gysin und Ian Sommerville.
Many young people are obviously of another type; some of Ted's beatnik contemporaries, for example, would doubtless call him a «square»; but it is to this particular and worthwhile kind of person that these letters are addressed.
Besides SXSW, Tom and I celebrated our two year anniversary this past weekend and went to Beatnik for dinner and drinks.
Mumbling through interviews, playing the bongos in a cow field and taking speed with Eartha Kitt in seedy New York nightclubs, Dehaans Dean is a strung - out beatnik who likes to keep reminding himself that hes a rebel without a cause.
Hollywood may have been a sclerotic dinosaur, but inspired in equal measure by European cineastes and America's dharma bums, other eager - beaver bohemians were gnawing away at the system — hanging out at pop art gallery shows and beatnik poetry readings, digging Dylan and the Doors, studying the Method, smoking pot, and finding work at AIP.
The artist was known for her camaraderie with Cedar Tavern macho dudes like de Kooning and Pollock, her hangout sessions with beatnik poets, her ability to party, and her tendency to drink and sleep around with bravado.
It was followed by the Custom Barracuda, Deora, Custom T - Bird, Custom Firebird, Silhouette, Ford J. Car, Custom Volkswagen, Hot Heap, Beatnik Bandit, Custom Eldorado, Cheetah, Custom Fleetside, Custom Corvette, Custom Cougar, and Custom Mustang.
Unlike the rest of the Phantom Thieves, this Bohemian beatnik attends Kosei High School and joins the motley crew after a very fateful event involving his art mentor / idol Madarame.
Hundreds of central Indiana animal lovers came together to celebrate and raise funds for SNSI on October 3 at the Forum Conference Center in Fishers at the Indy Hair Ball Beatnik Hootenanny.
Join Judith Stein as she brings alive a posterity - averse beatnik with a legendary eye, a tale that unfolds as postmodernism elbowed the past aside.
So join me in a Zinfandel appreciation event and tasting of California's true historical grape at Beatnik Studios in downtown Sacramento.
The waking up at the «crack of noon» is usually the province of hardcore beatnik male types like the great Tom Waits.
It was at the epicentre of the Jesus People movement, which saw thousands of hippies, surfers and beatniks come to Christ as they swapped psychedelic drugs and rock and roll for the Holy Spirit and a new wave of folk - rock worship music.
Ted was an arty beatnik, grafting on yachts and tripping out on drug highs.
Hired by Christian Dior as a young student, Yves redefined all style during the 60s and 70s with beatnik looks, safari jackets and thigh high boots.
However, my California lifestyle gives me the opportunity to embrace my inner beatnik.
I do love a black turtleneck, goes with so much in winter and adds a nice little beatnik touch.
Beatnik Jeans, Current / Elliot, $ 118 (sale!)
Bathe in the building's beatnik roots and counterculture vibes as you ascend to the third floor poetry room and perch atop stools to share bits of storied verse.
Includes: • Conformity in 1950s men's wear • Finding 50s style clothing • Leisure wear • Youthful styles • Teddy boys • Beatnik style
Bobbie Jo is entranced with poet Alan Landman, a visiting beatnik who is passing through Hooterville.
Its first local stop is a cynical beatnik pad, where dropped - out longhairs (led by the miscast George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore) eternally scowl about the hopelessness of metropolitan life.
Even if we take the rambling, foul - mouthed, elderly teacher out of the equation, the film has a somewhat beatnik quality to it, populated as it is by people whose creativity thrives when not constrained by the established ways of doing things.
As in the first story, this version takes place in a Venice Beach coffee house filled with quirky performance artists, and «alternative types» (originally beatniks).
«Beatnik Blues: Investigating Daddy - O» is a brief look at how the film fits into the tough guy movies that were in vogue during the 1950s, with comments from the usual film historians who pop up in Shout!
In Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell's roistering beatnik noir, East LA is the gameboard for Andrew Garfield's scruffy, stupefied yo - yo as he traverses the landscape in search of his flirtatious neighbour, Sarah (Riley Keough), after she goes missing.
After defiantly telling his sister that, no, he won't be going back to the Merchant Marine for a stint at sea, he impulsively joins — with cat in tow — a dyspeptic, shambling jazz musician and his doggerel - mumbling beatnik «valet» (John Goodman and Garrett Hedlund, respectively) on an ill - fated road trip to Chicago.
The ramifications of killing for art's sake have long been fair game for film treatment, especially in movies that tap the horror - comedy vein, whether the target of the humor is the reception of the resultant artworks (Roger Corman's A Bucket of Blood gives it in the neck to Beatnik poseurs) or else their inspiration (Herschell Gordon Lewis's sanguinary variation on the theme, Color Me Blood Red).
She tries to wrap her head around her relationship with her sweetheart and future ex-husband Charlie Bodell (Nicolas Cage), while also correcting her one regret, to better know her Kerouac - loving, Hemingway - hating independent beatnik classmate Michael Fitzsimmons (Kevin J. O'Connor).
These vice-tight fists grip sticks stirring cauldrons of scuffled licks, with punches and kicks that beat the beat outta beatniks, on taut skin, taught to discipline dual - wielding squatters and double - time swatters.
Director Scott Derrickson (Sinister) doesn't exactly double down on the comic's trippy imagery or capture the character's beatnik appeal — mainstream audiences and Disney investors aren't exactly looking for a Jodorowsky film with capes — but he does stage some appropriately mind - bending, kid - friendly bursts of psychedelic trickery.
As Hef, James Franco seems oddly asexual — more beatnik than Don Draper — but even
Oliver Reed stars in Guy Hamilton's 1963 film about a group of Chelsea beatniks, who find themselves joined by enigmatic young woman Melina.
«Think Pink» is Pepto - Bismol magnifique; Audrey Hepburn's beatnik act in the Caveau de Huchette (or some approximation thereof) is still smokily evocative and sexy.
One of the best examples of the fleshing out of peripheral characters, Hurricane Neddy shows Ned's no - rules beatnik parents as the cause of his happy - go - lucky personality, which is really anger expressed through «nonsensical jabbering.»
McDonald's Kent is an amusingly hissable baddie, and Jennifer Aniston and Harry Connick Jr. disappear nicely into their roles as Hogarth's mother and beatnik friend Dean, respectively.
A wanna - be beatnik artist accidentally kills a cat and covers it with plaster.
Davis just barely makes it, after having to carpool with a near - mute beatnik poet Johnny Five (Garrett Hedlund) and an elitist, loquacious jazz musician Roland Turner (John Goodman), whose vices and embittered personality encapsulate the sad future that their shared profession may hold in store for Davis.
One room featured fifth graders in beatnik berets reciting Shel Silverstein poems and serving cappuccinos, while the library was crammed with local «celebrities» — the Gainesville mayor, the superintendent, a local dentist, a pilot, a doctor — signing autographs and discussing the various intelligences they use in their professions.
Also worth a look are the eclectic cars by the Klairmont Kollections of Chicago that includes an Adam West - era Batmobile and a custom 1955 Ford «Beatnik Bubbletop» created by Gary Fioto.
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