Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen turned the medium in on itself; the confines of the parlor were a perfect metaphor for the confinements of nineteenth century society. An adaptation of Ghosts at the Loeb transforms Ibsen's sitting room into a chic contemporary country home; the end result is a fine production which resembles Ibsen in form but not in sense...
...Hara's preoccupation with the upper class and its foibles (George Frazier of the Boston Globe commented after O'Hara's death that "he knows about court tennis and custom tailoring and chic clubs...") narrowed his literary scope. Some characters do stand out: Julian English is well drawn, and the recurring figure of Jimmy Malloy, an autobiographical character, is quite believable. But O'Hara the novelist was content to write about a social order that, in the words of the critic Conrad Knickerbocker, "began to flake away...
...warped-left, hip-chic political philosophy written into Saturday Night is typical of the gulf between most Americans and the axis media-entertainment people...
Close Friends. Her credentials are acceptable. She is a graduate of Northwestern, where she studied economics, has worked for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and has done magazine writing. But none of this makes her a consumer specialist. In fact, her best-known specialty is throwing chic dinners at her $250,000 Chevy Chase, Md., home, often attended by such close friends as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller (who once lent her husband more than $180,000 to help purchase a small paper in California). Could these two luminaries have helped...
...jour to déjà vu and á la almost anything. However, there are hundreds of French words imbedded in the English language for which there are no substitutes-even the politician may find it hard to oppose the tongue that makes him élite and his wife chic, his views avantgarde, his opponent naïve. Who would want to unscramble omelette, anglicize soufflé or advertise crêpes suzette as pancakes Suzy? A tête á tête is not eyeball to eyeball; savoir-faire is considerably more than know-how. And what would...