Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wearing a sandwich board saying FUTURE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, Frier McCollister, 17, has been walking the sidewalks of Chicago's chic Michigan Avenue this summer with a pewter mug in his hand. McCollister has been admitted to Columbia but needs money. He is probably ineligible for various grant programs because his family's income is $25,000 a year, yet his parents have barely been able to raise the $7,000 to pay for the basics: room, board and tuition. So McCollister, who tried to find a summer job, has taken to an old form of free enterprise...
Instead, Felker started up New West. His formula was simple enough: the service chic that had worked so brilliantly in New York should also succeed in California. The magazine dove into muckraking political coverage although Baker believes that Californians are less intrigued by politics than are New Yorkers...
...loud, raucous, often brutal sounds of punk rock. For a year or so, punk has been flourishing in the seediest rock joints-a Bowery bar called CBGB's in New York, a dingy cavern called the Roxy in London, and The Rat in Boston. There, shock is chic. Musicians and listeners strut around in deliberately torn T shirts and jeans; ideally, the rips should be joined with safety pins. Another fad is baggy pants with a direct connection between fly and pocket. These are called dumpies. Swastika emblems go well with such outfits. In London, the hair is often...
...Chic Oasis. To compound the problem, the fund's old trustees placed a lot of trust-and money-in a few individuals. At one point, Allen Click, a boyish businessman who controls the Stardust and Fremont casino-hotels in Nevada through Argent Corp., owed $146 million. He has since turned back some California and Texas properties and reduced his obligations to about $90 million. His casinos are being investigated by the Clark County (Las Vegas) district attorney and the Nevada Gaming Control Board following charges that substantial sums were skimmed from the slot machines. La Costa Land Co., which...
...stars of the film, a saga of CB truckers based on C.W. McCall's 1975 hit song, are more charitable. "Only Sam knows what he's doing, but I trust him," says Ali MacGraw, who is trying to make a movie comeback as a chic photojournalist who falls in love with a trucker. "Sam is like an old dog you sometimes have to apologize for," says Kris Kristofferson, the trucker Ali falls for. A more direct comment comes from Burt Young, who played Talia Shire's crude, ugly brother in Rocky and who goes...