Word: birnbach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four years after collaborating on The Official Preppy Handbook, Lisa Birnbach has returned with a prequel: life before Bif and Muffy get the desk and mortgage. Lisa Birnbach's College Book runs down-sometimes literally-186 American schools. "I realized that there wasn't a single college guide that described life on campus," she recalls, "at least not the things that interested...
Hemenway Gymnasium is being invaded. At first sight it looks like a preppy convention from a page of Lisa Birnbach's "Preppy Handbook...
...wide can make all the difference." Only that idle elite can afford to spend time learning to detect such trivial differences and can squander money paying for them. What a pity that the rest of us are not the beneficiaries of a higher education similar to that of Birnbach et al.; we too might learn not to perspire in the shade of palm trees and tennis courts...
Plaid skirts pose a special problem because most men can hardly fail to recognize their uniform ugliness. They are part of the backlash to feminism that brings us Brooke Shields' close encounters with Calvin Klein. Thus does plaid-clad "Bunny" Birnbach promote her success with The Preppy Handbook by claiming to "get a wonderful frisson from dressing preppy while cherishing liberal attitudes and social conciousness...
Although the "handbook" is a satirical attack at the preppy lifestyle. Birnbach said she is really "pro-preppy." She feels, however, that the preppies "have to laugh at themselves...