Word: chic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DURING THIS TIME of self-examination I happened to stumble upon Tom Wolfe's book Radical Chic, in which he describes another special party that Bernstein hosted a decade and a half...
Lenny and Felicia are genuises....They are at the cutting edge of Radical Chic. Obviously, if you are giving a party for the Black Panthers, as Lenny and Felicia are this evening...well then obviously you cannot have a Negro butler and maid, Claude and Maude, in uniform, circulating the living room, the library, and the main hall serving drinks and canapes. One simply cannot see this moment...
...Here," the new cafe, is "a see and be seen place with innovative architecture, a chic but casual ambiance and subdued elegance," according to a sign hanging nearby. Menu offerings include all kinds of goodies, from Turkey Primavera to Cajun Sushi to Buffalo Wings to cream puffs filled with pistachio ice cream...
...famous and nearly rich for inventing Easy Edges, a playful, functional line of furniture. The structural principle was ingeniously low tech: cardboard was glued and sandwiched together, each layer of corrugations at right angles to the layer above and below. The furniture was cheap ($37 for a chair) and chic. But Gehry decided he could not stomach becoming known as a designer of ubiquitous designer furniture. Less than three months after it was introduced, he withdrew Easy Edges from the market. "I was trying to make the Volkswagen," he says today. "I did, and it worked, and I got carried...
...earlier roles -- as the scheming siren in Body Heat, the prostitute drunk on erotic danger in Crimes of Passion, the chic hit woman of Prizzi's Honor -- Turner has dazzlingly portrayed women with elusive identities. Was a Turner character foxy or a weasel, or tantalizing bits of both? Peggy Sue, while tamping down the actress's smoldering Wasp sexuality, challenges her to play two characters and moods at once. She must simultaneously experience and elegize the high spirits of her teens, and she accomplishes the feat with grace, wit and feeling. Turner, 32, cannot pass for a teenager, but that...