Sentences with phrase «beatnik in»

In Esther's vitrine, photographs show her as a young woman full of life: a teenager squinting in the sun in one, a vampish proto - beatnik in another.

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.

Ted — Maynard G. Krebs — from the semi-classic 50s show DOBIE GILLIS — was famous for his beard (sure sign of a Beatnik in the 50s), his slovenly dress, and especially his aversion to work.

Think abstract artists and beatniks in downtown Manhattan, Peggy Guggenheim and her new gallery Art of this Century, cocktail parties on the Upper East Side, Pollock's drip paintings, jazz, beat poetry, dancing the jitterbug and sipping Martinis at the Savoy as we celebrate the era when New York overtook Paris as the capital of the art world.

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Beatnik: There are over 1B Catholics in the world.

When I was eight, I decided that what my nine - year - old sister needed was the savings bank I found on the discount counter of a junk store, a coconut shell carved in the shape of a beatnik monkey, complete with beret, sunglasses, and bongo drums.

So join me in a Zinfandel appreciation event and tasting of California's true historical grape at Beatnik Studios in downtown Sacramento.

Includes: • Conformity in 1950s men's wear • Finding 50s style clothing • Leisure wear • Youthful styles • Teddy boys • Beatnik style

The beatnik characterizations feel outdated in the time of peace - and - love hippies, and the leads» initial euphoria quickly fades to a bland, status - quo conformity that isn't consistent with the infection's established pathology.

Instead of pondering our navels in the transcendental state achieved while watching the gorgeous and meditative «Tree Of Life,» we are plunged into a world of gangsters, Sugar Mamas, beatniks, bare knuckle brawlers and Romanian nuns fighting the devil.

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).

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.

«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 missinIn 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 missinin search of his flirtatious neighbour, Sarah (Riley Keough), after she goes missing.

documentary revisiting the dive located in the Latin Quarter in Paris which became the haunt and home of literary American expatriates in the late Fifties, beatniks like Allen Ginsberg, Greg Corso and William Burroughs.

All That Heaven Allows — Douglas Sirk melodrama about a wealthy widow (Jane Wyman) who falls in love with the Thoreuvian tree farmer Rock Hudson, and has to choose between social pressure and the beatnik.

In fact, it so desperately wants to capture that beatnik - y place and tone where crime films and swinging London met that it just seems to try too hard, slathering the movie with music, trippy visuals and other elements that just can't make up for the deficit of a weak and blandly told story about a ex-con (Colin Farrell) hired to look after a reclusive young actress (Keira Knightley) who finds himself falling in love, which of course puts himself in direct confrontation with one of London's most vicious gangsterIn fact, it so desperately wants to capture that beatnik - y place and tone where crime films and swinging London met that it just seems to try too hard, slathering the movie with music, trippy visuals and other elements that just can't make up for the deficit of a weak and blandly told story about a ex-con (Colin Farrell) hired to look after a reclusive young actress (Keira Knightley) who finds himself falling in love, which of course puts himself in direct confrontation with one of London's most vicious gangsterin love, which of course puts himself in direct confrontation with one of London's most vicious gangsterin direct confrontation with one of London's most vicious gangsters.

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).

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.

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.

«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.

Rolling Stone, introducing an annotated list of ten of his «essential films,» notes that he was «a child of the Depression, a WWII vet, a beatnik, a bit player in TV and movies, a troubadour, a hipster icon.

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.

Roth's cars were ahead of their time in several regards, for example the «Beatnik Bandit II» featured an electronic console which controlled a digital instrument cluster.

Throughout a good deal of his youth Beau lived in West Hollywood, an unincorporated section of Los Angeles county, known as a center of counter-culture and beatnik life.

Hallberg grew up in the small college town of Greenville, North Carolina, where he was the «resident beatnik.»

Curtis has trouble locating the elusive Stanley, but he finds one of Stanley's treasured possessions: a slender volume of poems, «The Mirror Thief,» written in 1958 by a proto - beatnik named Adrian Welles.

She even looked androgynous, with boyish short hair, and dressed in beatnik roll - neck sweaters and jeans.

The resulting gestalt is a typology of American subcultures and their denizens: cowboys, space cowboys, bikers, beatniks, hippies, and punks in science fiction, fantasy, pulp, porn, comics, and rock and roll.

2015 Repetition (Repetition), Meessen De Clercq, Brussels 2014 Alien Beatnik Siren, Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York 2013 An Aspen's Inability to be a Pine, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels 2012 In Spectral Form, Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York

Born to an American father and a Chinese mother, Dick Bellamy (1927 - 1998) was a poetry - loving beatnik when he arrived in New York in 1950.

Born in New Orleans, LA in 1983 and raised in Alabama, Kyle Eyre Clyd's work draws on the histories of electroaucoustic performance, meditative drone, performance art, music concrete, beatnik mind expansion techniques, and American folk melancholy.

«Beatnik Meteors,» the most recent exhibition at the di Rosa and the first in new curator Amy Owen's collaboration - focused program, is an energetic mish mash of installation, performance, film and sound works by three groups...

Makeovers and dressing - up activities You'll also be able to transform into an Abstract Expressionist work of art with our face painter and make - up artist, or join our drop - in craft activities to create a beatnik headscarf to complete your look.

A framed newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, October 15, 1964, describes the somewhat wayward clientele of the place as «beatniks, neighborhood time wasters and unclassifiable types who could be radio talkers, TV writers, actresses and European tourists,» mentioning that in the past it was frequented by such colorful luminaries as Jean Harlow, Clara Bow and John Barrymore.

The book is a beatnik - era exercise in existentialism set against the cultural peculiarities and racial inequities of the Crescent City in the late 1950s.

You're twenty years old in 1960, you're with a bunch of beatniks.

Ugo Rondinone's surround - sound presentation of the 79 - year - old beat poet John Giorno, saying his catty goodbyes to the world in a meandering lament that takes no prisoners, is a touching tribute to an old beatnik's fearlessness.

She was involved in San Francisco Beatnik culture, and part of a circle that included the poets Michael McClure and Alan Ginsberg, and artists Jay De Feo, Wally Hedrick and Bruce Conner.

«I learned how to weld in Provincetown in the 1960's — it was a real beatnik moment, and I just followed my bliss,» said the designer.

In 1958, Leslie collaborated with photographer Robert Frank on the beatnik classic Pull My Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac and featuring Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Alice Neel, and Larry Rivers, among many others.

Sort of beatnik... Growing up on the West Coast, we spent a lot of time in San Francisco... in North Beach... Kerouac and all those people were big... In Seattle we used to go to poetry readings and heard music all the timin San Francisco... in North Beach... Kerouac and all those people were big... In Seattle we used to go to poetry readings and heard music all the timin North Beach... Kerouac and all those people were big... In Seattle we used to go to poetry readings and heard music all the timIn Seattle we used to go to poetry readings and heard music all the time.

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.

Ramos was given a residency at the Hammer Museum in preparation for Made in L.A. 2012, in which he connected his family in Venice Beach to beatnik culture, the West Coast conceptual art, and the representation of Mexicans and Mexican - Americans in Hollywood.

In her talk, Stein brings alive a posterity - averse beatnik with a legendary eye, a tale that unfolds as postmodernism elbowed the past aside.

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