Word: chic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those class lines, however, are not so easy to cross. Pacot, a run-down but still chic neighborhood, is three miles and another world away from La Saline's slums. In a corner here and there, the brittle, corrupt surface of Papa Doc's Haiti still glitters. Guard dogs run along the tops of security walls, and chauffeured Mercedes Benz slip in and out of driveways leading to Gothic gingerbread houses...
...though. No matter how upscale a Manhattanite climbs, he can never escape the sight of poverty or the threat of violence. The glitterati on their way to a $1,000-a-ticket gala must tiptoe through the homeless camped outside in their cardboard condos. And at this week's chic disco -- in this week's beyond-chic movie thriller -- a wealthy young woman named Claire Gregory (Mimi Rogers) may be witness to a murder. And be tabbed and stalked by the killer. And be protected by Mike Keegan (Tom Berenger), a Queens policeman who knows no more of haut-monde...
SHEILA McCarthy's performance as the shy Polly is truly extraordinary. Her waif-like face and huge eyes are guileless. Her innocence is believable and her naivete is charming. And thus she is utterly at odds with the chic gallery people who treat her like a lost puppy--lovable and amusing but not worth their attention. When Polly hears them say a painter has "acute awareness," she thinks they mean "a cute awareness, like a cute face...
...like you to fix as many things as you possibly can, so maybe we can get her a boyfriend." He loves practical jokes. Sheldon Leonard, the producer who gave Cosby his first TV role on I Spy, chuckles at the memory of his arrival last year at the chic Grand Hotel du Cap on the French Riviera, where he was to meet Cosby, who vacations there each summer. Checking into his room, Leonard ordered the bellman, who had his head ducked down, to put away the luggage. The distinctly un-French reply: ! "Yassuh, boss. I be puttin...
...last summer for my 10th Yale reunion because I still live part of each year in New Haven. I even thought I knew what was going on until Sara Cohen, class of '88, started talking about the `lipsticks' and the `crunchies.' The former, she explains, are Yale's radical-chic lesbians; the latter, 'the granola dykes who have old-fashioned ideas about feminism.' Then there are the assimilationists, gay men mostly, who don't want to draw attention to their sexuality, and a growing number of special-interest factions, like the new Chicano-lesbian group. Suddenly Yale has a reputation...