Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peirce's extensive traveling and his research convinced him that "there was lots happening out in the country that official Washington and chic New York were not aware of." In March 1975 he started writing a biweekly column on local affairs of national significance, simply mailing it from his home to papers across the country. He now writes weekly, has 65 regular subscribers and many other occasional users. He asks the latter group to pay their regular rate for a feature of similar length, which may vary from $15 to $75. Although Peirce spends two weeks of every month...
...point shortly after beginning A Book of Common Prayer when it becomes obvious that, notwithstanding Harper's excerpt, this is not just another Patricia Hearst fixation. Indeed, Harper's selection from the book does not do Didion's novel justice. The book centers on a wealthy family--a radical chic lawyer, with a Warhol silk screen of Mao in the living room, rather than a newspaper magnate--and their newly-converted revolutionary daughter, whose rhetoric makes little sense and at best serves to separate her from her wealthy background, the FBI and a steamy, dull, white-washed country in Latin...
...other film-maker of his generation." The screening of Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven, made in 1975 but just recently released in the U.S., is, therefore, certainly an event of great interest. Unfortunately the film will be most interesting to that group with which Fassbinder sympathizes least (the radical chic) and will not attract that group which he addresses most (the proletariat which maintains a society that treats it injustly...
...first, except this time with all the multi-media possibilities of the Loeb exploited. This part is wholly the creation of director Peter Sellars '80, Harvard's own artist-huckster Christo who as a freshman has foisted this crazy unorthodox production on the mainstage. His concept is a chic one A la Altman and Chorus Line, the director and actors got together during rehearsal in a dance studio filled with mirrors and spent a month improvising, trying to squeeze characters out of the Sitwell poetry, while a photographer snapped glamourous pictures of the cast which are projected on the huge...
...throes of utter despondency. The exception appears in the form of the superstar vocalist Eric Wood, played by Richard Baskin (who also wrote the scores for Welcome and Nashville). He serves the function of being the token enigma in the cast, providing a refreshing contrast with the honesty-chic psychobabble of the Los Angelenos. Rudolph deliberately made no effort to flesh out the character, to probe his innermost feelings. The viewer never sees Wood outside of the recording studio, and he maintains his aloofness even within his own habitat, always seated behind a piano bathed in darkness and shadows while...