beatnik

How could this crazy beatnik character be Disney?

He stars as the busboy at a beatnik bar who uses his incredibly lifelike sculptures to impress the hip clientele.

As she deftly demonstrated the choreography’s awkwardness while playing it straight, my mind went for a moment to Audrey Hepburn’s beatnik dance in “Funny Face.”

Spectral students from various eras offer a range of familiar types — jock, beatnik, stoner, gay kid —and remind us that as long as you live, and even afterward, you’re never out of high school.

In America, the term “counterculture” is so associated with hippies, beatniks, bohemians and the like, it might seem odd to think of self-described conservatives as counterculture types.