Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...misleading, for societies calling themselves socialist include Western-style democracies and repressive Communist dictatorships, constitutional republics and hereditary monarchies. Socialism is a flag of convenience that accommodates technocrats and market-minded economists, that allows fascist-type dictators or small-time Bonapartes to perpetuate themselves in power. It is politically chic to use the socialist label. Observes French Political Philosopher Raymond Aron: "In most countries, socialism carries the connotation that whatever is good is socialist, whatever is bad originates in capitalism." Adds Nobel-Prizewinning Economist Milton Friedman: "[For many], socialism implies egalitarianism and that people are living for society, while capitalism...
...action takes place, of course, in New York, the ultimate hangout for unmarried swingers and upwardly mobile young couples. When Company first hit Broadway almost ten years ago, it had a very chic, cosmopolitan air; that sophistication seems a little dated, but the theme of marital give-and-take versus a less threatening but lonelier single life remains relevant. In the first act, Bobby wanders among his married friends, acting as a straight-man, bringing out their annoying traits and seemingly set patterns. In the second act, he begins to feel increasingly isolated, and this leads to the obligatory epiphany...
...Unmarried Woman, the director leaves his favorite turf, swinging Southern California, for the less laid-back precincts of Manhattan. He has the terrain down pat. The film unfolds in chic SoHo lofts, Upper East Side high-rises and glittery mock-deco bars. The characters are people who favor art by Paul Davis, go to sleep to the purr of the cable-TV news ticker, wear Adidas sneakers when jogging and fall in lust while shopping at Bloomingdale's. They are well-intentioned people, but they have a sad habit of wounding each other. Mazursky -whose sensibility is half John...
...comedy Shampoo, Director Hal Ashby drew a scathing portrait of privileged Americans living in selfish bliss during the Viet Nam War. Shampoo was set in Beverly Hills against the pointedly ironic background of the 1968 presidential election; its characters were upper-middle-class philanderers whose lives revolved around the chic local beauty salon. Throughout the film, sad news from Southeast Asia blares forth from radios and TV sets, but no one in Shampoo bothers to listen. They are all too busy getting ready for a Nixon victory party that night to care about a war that seems a million miles...
...Owner Steve Rubell, who light-show years away was a Wall Street broker, is striving for permanent chic. Most nights he stations himself at the doorway (with a few bouncers) to weed the throngs begging for entrance. "We only want fun people," he explains. "The wilder the clothes, the better the chance you have of getting in. We discourage the Bagel Nosh-polyester group...