Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radical Chic" was the epigram with which Writer Tom Wolfe skewered a party given by Conductor-Composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife to raise a defense fund for the 13 New York Black Panthers just acquitted of conspiracy (see THE NATION). That widely publicized gathering last year proved to be a debacle for Bernstein-he was booed on the podium, picketed by the Jewish Defense League, editorially scolded by the New York Times, and flooded with hate-mail. Nothing daunted, however, the persistent Bernsteins last week gave another political party in their Park Avenue pad. This time, it was Catholic...
...cipher; the SPFC scene is both cruel and whimsical in a mix that doesn't mesh; and I even may be mistaken about the purpose of the songs the girls were singing: I am told that one of them, Tom Eyen's "Ode to a Screw," passes for chic these days...
Judging from the response of most Harvard students to last weekend's march on Washington, antiwar protests have lost a large measure of chic. A poll conducted by the Washington Post of people at the Capitol rally found that most of the people in the march were participating in an antiwar action for the first time. It also found a remarkable lack of Ivy League students present...
...anything about them. I was simply sick and tired of playing sex-crazed neurotics. I didn't have anything more to bring to that sort of role." She will have to suffer seeing herself that way one more time in the forthcoming Sunday, Bloody Sunday, which is Pythagorean chic-a triangle with a man and a woman in love with the same young...
...been there in one position or another since 1941, when he escaped from Paris to New York and was hired by Lucien Vogel, on whose illustrated magazine Vu he had worked in the '30s. Some Liberman critics claim that his art exists mainly on a level of Parnassian chic, that he is "uncommitted," a designer of objects rather than a maker of acts and images. Indeed, Liberman is the antitype of "the American artist," for he has always disdained to specialize. "The type I admire," he says, "is the ancient Chinese administrator who as a matter of course painted...