Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honor guard of revolutionary vaginas." He admits to naiveté in visualizing his female adversaries as "thin college ladies with eyeglasses, no-nonsense features, mouths thin as bologna slices, a babe in one arm, a hatchet in the other, gray eyes bright with balefire." When he protests to chic Radical Chick Gloria Steinem that he doesn't know what Women's Lib has against him. she tells him tartly: "You might try reading your books some day." Manhattan Congresswoman Bella Abzug adds: "We think your views on women are full...
...flamboyant, excitingly splashy but tamed by good taste. The expertise of his orchestral writing is remarkable-bold blocks of brass sound, piquant wisps of woodwind, supple simplicity in the strings. Perhaps the most important thing about his composition is that he has dared to opt for tradition over "now" chic: the idiom is tonal and reflects the post-romantic passions of the early 20th century...
...early to tell whether "Some American History," with its sprawling dioramas and wide range of loaded subjects, will be taken as propaganda, or history, or reality, or radical chic, or simply as an art show. Compared to the immediacy of film or videotape, history painting of any kind-even Rivers'-seems a curiously archaic approach to urgent political reality. But it is a sign of the times that it could be commissioned and put on in Texas...
...want to improve investment performance-balanced, of course, against what must be a fundamentally conservative investment philosophy." For instance, the Vatican sold off-to Charles G. Bluhdorn's Gulf & Western-two-thirds of its 15% interest in Immobiliare, the international construction company that built Washington's chic Watergate apartments...
...Just Old Friends?" was the caption the New York Daily News slapped on its front-page photo of Princess Margaret's Lord Snowdon and a slight bit of chic called Lady Jacqueline Rufus Isaacs having rather serious fun at a London party. For the past year, according to the News, Tony, 40, and Lady Jacqueline, 24, have been a steady twosome, and during his recent hospitalization (for a hemorrhoid operation), "it was Lady Jackie who visited him even more often than Margaret." Last week, as the rumors flew, sometime Fashion Model Jacqueline left England for Switzerland, sometime Fashion Photographer...