Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leek streak. In the Middle East Henry Kissinger has doubtless seen a sheik streak. Men of humble mien do a meek streak, while those running fully clothed through a nudist colony do a freak streak. If the act is performed in Bergdorf's, it is, no doubt, a chic streak, and in any high fashion store, a boutique streak. The solo act is a unique streak; a group performs a clique streak. The chosen footwear suggests the sneaker streaker. The possibilities appear limitless...
...gathering of celebrities or pretenders to that status is complete without the presence of a writer from Women's Wear Daily, the gossipy trade journal of evanescent chic. So when 300 jet setters assembled in Mexico for the opening of a $30 million resort, a by-lined story by Adelita Esterhazy last week dutifully recorded choice bits of fatuousness for WWD readers. But the piece ended on a dark editor's note: before leaving Mexico, "Adelita Esterhazy was walking the beach alone when she was attacked by an iguana. Dr. Eduardo Negrobien was unable to save her. This...
Godard. The chic attitude nowadays is to be down on Godard. He wasn't actually as important, self-appointed arbiters declare, as we thought he was during the '60s. A stylish innovator, perhaps, but without content. That's probably true for an early, exuberant fool-around film like Breathless, a quick-paced sort of Bogart parody. Pierrot Le Fou is more ambitious and more complex, however, and so the revisionists had better look twice before they go about their revising...
...that today. Thus it is hard to leaf through the pages of magazines like Réalties or Connaissance des Arts without experiencing a touch of nausea: this is what it has come down to, a ragout of flattering consumer objects floating in a buttery sauce of vicarious chic-Mercedes-Benzes and Daum crystal, Porthault linen and Andy Warhols, Tiepolo drawings and onyx washstands, Dubuffets and silver-garnished narwhal horns...
...Voluntary conservation has become far more effective than might have been anticipated in a supposedly self-indulgent nation. A kind of energy chic has taken hold; people really are lowering thermostats, switching off lights and driving more slowly. For the four weeks ending Dec. 28, gasoline demand dropped 8.7% below forecasts. Use of residual oil fell 2.5% below predictions, indicating that industry has also adopted the conservation ethic...