Word: chic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disease has been around for thousands of years. It reappears when monogamy breaks down. AIDS pushes monogamy right back up there on the priority list." An Atlanta executive concludes, "We are paying for our sins of the '60s, when one-night stands and sex without commitment used to be chic." More than anything, the public wants guidelines, new rules for unprecedented circumstances. The definition of "high-risk sexual activity" is chilling: according to health experts, it includes fellatio and vaginal and anal sex without a condom, and cunnilingus without a shield. Anyone engaging in sex with a new partner...
Permissive behavior has not disappeared from campus life, but some attitudes are being reconsidered. Monica Feinberg, 22, a heterosexual Yale graduate, maintains that bisexual dating, which was not only accepted but chic among some students at certain Ivy League colleges, is no longer exciting and * fun. "It was mostly experimentation," she stresses. "The students do not consider themselves bisexual . . . They felt that sleeping around was no longer a novelty. They moved on to something else...
Black Widow has style to spare. Its images are opulent, chic, seductive: ! recumbent nudes framed by a fireplace, or a couple of perfect bodies meeting in a night-lighted swimming pool. At times the film seems to believe that no thriller can be too rich or too thin. But there is dark substance lurking here, like the avidity and contempt hidden in the all-American smile of its honeyed, moneyed murderer. That would be Catharine (Theresa Russell), who marries and fatally poisons some of the richest men in the world. Maybe she loves them, almost as much as she loves...
...plot, such as it is, is utterly inconsequential, only an excuse to string 25 songs together in some kind of context. We swing through the Club High-Life to the Club Au-Revoir by way of "A Chic Club in Paris," all of which are represented by a few tables and chairs set up in front of the lacquered stage of the Next Move Theater. We have the again chantuese "who during the Eisenhower Administration never once saw daylight," the young star, the happy go lucky group of kids who are down on their luck but gotta lot of heart...
Having championed native American foods and wines in the '50s and '60s, when only the word imported had currency with pseudo gourmets, Fisher is now tiring of all the hype about native food. "If I hear any more about chic Tex- Mex or blue cornmeal, I'll throw up. And I've always hated goat cheese because it tastes like dirt," she says. About the present wave of young American chefs, she observes, "Of course they should be encouraged, but most are too young to be so famous. I think it takes twelve years of experience after graduation from...