Word: cachet
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Others will say that I am taking the UC too seriously in thinking that the UC president should be considered a central figure on this campus. But the gravity of the role has little to do with the social cachet the presidential post already has. Rather, it concerns the respect and reach that a UC president might have...
...could then also declare to his base that he escaped Massachusetts – that kooky, liberal bastion – as soon as he was able. Not to mention, unlike in Massachusetts where he is today largely viewed as a slick opportunist, the Romney name still has cachet in Michigan; his father George was a highly respected Governor there. So why is he now planning on remaining in the Commonwealth...
...Another undeniable is that pot has cachet among teens. Some kids between 13 and 19 are clearly willing to risk everything to smoke the stuff - they know how much trouble they can get in. The "smoker" label seems as important a part of their personae as their tastes in music and clothing - maybe more so because it's illegal. It's as defining for them as it was for my pothead friends in the '70s. Maybe they'll become investment bankers...
...teaches sewing at Spark Craft Studios in Somerville, Mass., which opened in January 2005. "They're really sick of not being able to find clothes they like that fit them the way they like," she says. What's more, making your own clothes now has a special kind of cachet, particularly among image-conscious teenagers. "When people say, 'Where did you get that?' it's like, 'Oh, I made it,' and people think that's really cool," says Taylor Ostertag, 14, who stitched a pair of pajama bottoms in her high school sewing club in Oswego, Ill., using a light...
...guess the reasons for the decline of foreign-film cachet. Some European directors came to Hollywood, as they had decades before, because that's where the action was and is. The two enticements foreign films offered U.S. audiences - intellectual panache, with a little sex - were no longer unique once Hollywood raised its I.Q. and dropped its drawers. Later still, many of the best filmmakers died or retired, and the films, frankly, weren't as exciting. (Or maybe, after all those years, we of the first film generation weren't so easily excited.) And the art houses that regularly played exotics...