Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is nothing sacred or familial about the book's characters. Doctors, architects, models, painters and intellectuals, they inhabit the chic world of urban haute bourgeoisie. Moral conventions and religious convictions have been replaced by easy sex and superficial nostalgia. At a party, two women sing the '40s hit Chattanooga Choo-Choo, while an argument ensues over whether there were three or four Andrews Sisters. Inane chat, vacuous stares, Bauhaus settings and Pucci puppets form a familiar narrative glaze...
...their long summer gowns and free-flowing hairdos, they look like characters from a bacchanal in Byron's own early 19th century London. They rival one another not only in elegance and extravagance but in sheer stamina, for the evening is likely to begin with dinner at a chic restaurant and end with a stylish breakfast at dawn. The revelers are not the bored and idle rich of the land, although tabs run high. The partygoers are high school students who are reviving-and revising-that grand and time-honored institution, the senior prom...
Cookie Pusher. Chocolate chip cookies are not exactly new: they date back to colonial times, when they were known as tollhouse cookies. It took Cookie Pusher Wally Amos, 40, to put chic into chips...
Long John was almost afraid to ask Bentley what he thought of the show. Bentley, a liberal Democrat with the tastes of the Brattle Street chic, was bound for the Law School after a year off. (That, in itself, surprised Long John. He had begun to think only young Marxists wanted to go to law school. To burrow from within, or so they said.) Bentley was a quarterback, a winner. He had composed a magna thesis in two weeks working with very little research and a very shaky theoretical knowledge. Bentley was against nuclear power and for gun control...
...satisfy man's need for pigheadedness. But there is similarly no need to be pigheaded in favor of Pavarotti's voice, an attitude which I'm afraid has become far too widespread lately, swooning at the mention of his name and fainting at the sound of his voice is chic nowadays. Quite frankly, he's a second rate tenor in an era when first rate tenors seem to be extinct...