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Word: chic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lacquered surface, Shadows in Paradise shows all the familiar Remarque gloss. There is the typically commercial title, second only to Heaven Has No Favorites. There is the often wordy dialogue- pretentiously sophisticated, as if spoken by an impostor duke. There is the slightly too chic setting: in this case, places like El Morocco, the fashion-and-art sa lons of New York and the swimming pools of Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Between Holocaust And Hollywood | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

Otherwise, Sonny & Cher is uninspired. Its stars are Sonny, a rock-'n'-roll graduate with the manner of an eager spaniel, and his wife, Cher, a gangling lady who sashays through comic skits with a kind of kooky chic. As a singing team, the couple trails a history of hit records of the mid-'60s, but as variety stars, neither has the comic gift to unthaw their frigid material. The saving feature of the show is Cher's singing. Give her a song and she electrifies a dim-watted production. Her rock-pop voice sounds like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Redeemers | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...time, Vermont was chic, and Alaska and Spain were favorite places to get away from it all. Nowadays those who really want to drop out head for Tobago, Sardinia and Pago Pago. One potential hideaway that until now has been completely ignored, however, is De Witt Isle, five miles off the southern coast of Tasmania* in the savage, blustery "Roaring Forties." Its assets are 4,000 acres of jagged rocks, tangled undergrowth and trees twisted and bent by the battering winds. Local fishermen call it the "Big Witch," and settlers have avoided it like the plague, but bandicoots (ratlike marsupials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Life on De Witt | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...Anns and Andys that the smallest lapse in the blocking and the stage tends to loss its focus. And while the voices are generally good, they, nonetheless, benefit by the generous use of handheld mikes. Intermission comes, however, and all is soon forgiven. In a winning display of ecclesiastical chic, the cast invites the audience up on stage for a chance at conversation and a little bit of wine...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Godspell | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

Yale has undergone a cultural transformation. Its response to the trends of the Sixties has finally put it on the map. "Yale Chic" bombards the public everywhere. Its heroes--Brewster, Reich, Segal, Coffin, Cavett, Doonesbury--have become nationwide personalities through the bestseller lists, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, late-night talk shows and daily comics...

Author: By Ann Juergens, | Title: We Bombed in New Haven | 11/18/1971 | See Source »

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